Coroner's Inquest - the facts
Just so everyone is fully informed of what happened:
The Coroner reviewed the full accident report, the relevant medical and pathological evidence, then called the AAIB as expert witnesses to explain the sequence of events and the findings of the BEA report.
Evidence was also admitted relating to Thales pitot tube problems on A321 aircraft in 2012 (see AAIB Bulletin 9/13), equipped with the same later mod tubes that were specified in the AD for the A330/A340.
After all of that, and some questions from the families, the Coroner handed down a considered narrative verdict. He did a thorough and even handed job, and the families were satisfied with the result.
(Coroners in the UK are judicial officers charged with conducting Judicial Inquests into unnatural deaths, not to be confused with US Coroners.)