The inquest into the death of 19-year-old Chris Nota at Chelmsford Coroner’s Court, which was expected to conclude on 30 September 2022, had to be adjourned to January 2023 as a result of a failure by Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) to provide thousands of pages of potentially key correspondence between clinicians to independent investigators.

HM Area Coroner for Essex, Sean Horstead, made clear that this was not the first case involving EPUT in which disclosure failures had arisen.

In voicing his ‘concern and disappointment’ that documents, the relevance of which should have been ‘barn door obvious’ to EPUT, had not been disclosed in its investigation.

This now begs the question as to how many years this disgusting practice has been allowed to continue, unchecked? Even more reason why STATUTORY POWERS MUST be added to the current toothless inquiry commissioned.

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