My Life in Forensic Pathology

On that calm summer night in 1989, a huge dredger, the Bowbelle, had collided on the Thames near Southwark Bridge with a small pleasure boat called the Marchioness. By the end of that day, we still had no idea how many people on board had died, even though I had viewed and organised the bodies with a colleague from Guy’s hospital. By law, the coroner is in charge of those bodies and Westminster’s coroner, Paul Knapman, came back to London from his holiday in Devon and met with me and senior police officers to agree how we would process the dead.

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