Information Commissioner's Office - It is unlikely that the Coroner has complied with DPA Act 1998

29 July 2016 I have today received the final response from the Policy Team at the Information Commissioner’s Office in regards to gaining access to a key witness statement at Carol’s inquest and other documents held by the Coroner responsible for conducting the 2nd inquest into Carol’s death. The key witness statement is directly in regards to Carol’s death and is 106 pages, at the inquest 87 pages were completely redacted and the remaining pages were partially redacted. I applied under the Freedom of Information Act and the Data Protection Act to the Coroner for access to the information. The Coroner refused access to all information requested. In a very significant step forward the ICO have today found in my favour, The ICO have now requested that the Coroner provide me with all information requested in the Subject Access Requests (SARs) from each of my immediate family. The Coroner now has an opportunity to be transparent and demonstrate that she is a neutral party. Anyone who is a neutral party with no investment in hiding evidence or facts relating to Carol's death would not be concerned in the slightest about today's statement from the ICO and would simply release all of the information. If Carol's death is non-suspicious this should be confirmed or at least supported by further facts and evidence that we may now get access to. I look forward to receiving a response from the Coroner.