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{{Short description|Verdict available to coroners in England, Wales and Ireland}}{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}A narrative verdict is a verdict available to coroners in England and Wales and in Ireland following an inquest.NEWS, Joe, Leogue,weblink Inquest hears man, 84, drove in wrong direction on motorway before fatal collision in 2016, 31 January 2018, Irish Examiner, In such a verdict the circumstances of a death are recorded,NEWS,weblink Kit delays led to soldier's death, BBC News, 2008-04-01, 18 December 2006, WEB,weblink Chronology of proceedings - Work Related Deaths and Inquests - Enforcement Guide (England & Wales), Health and Safety Executive, being a brief free-form, factual statement (either instead of, or in addition to, one of the standard, and familiar, Short-Form Conclusions), which does not attribute the cause to an individual.NEWS, What is a narrative verdict?,weblink 16 December 2020, ITV News, en, Narrative verdicts were introduced to England and Wales in 2004.NEWS,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120507031507weblink">weblink dead, 7 May 2012, Mistakes, missed chances and a young life lost, Grice, Elizabeth, 1 October 2009, 1 October 2009, Daily Telegraph, London,

Historical examples

The inquest into the death of Charlotte Shaw concluded with a narrative verdict in October 2010. Charlotte Shaw drowned while crossing a swollen stream on Dartmoor during training for Ten Tors in 2007.NEWS,weblink Coroner calls for safety improvements at Ten Tors inquest, Savill, Richard, 26 October 2010, Daily Telegraph, 4 March 2017, A coroner delivered a narrative verdict into the death of Secret Intelligence Service officer Gareth Williams whose decaying corpse was found padlocked into a red sports bag in the bath at his home in August 2010.NEWS,weblink MI6 death: Gareth Williams 'probably' killed unlawfully, BBC News, 2 May 2012, 2 May 2012,

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