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All hearings start at 10am unless otherwise indicated. Please check this page daily for updated information.

For witness descriptions please see the Who's Who.

 

THURSDAY 30 November 2000

Opening Statement from Lord Justice Clarke – 10am

Hearings start - Witnesses

Annette Russell

Survivor. Gave identification evidence to police.

Margaret Lockwood – Croft

Mother of Shaun Lockwood-Croft

Shirley Bourke

Stepmother of Jane Bourke

Peter Bourke

Father of Jane Bourke

Eileen Dallaglio

Mother of Francesca Dallaglio

Angela Bensamenn

Mother of Dean Palmer

Sally Smith

Mother of Jane Bourke

Lucy Garcia

Mother of Elsa Garcia

 

 

FRIDAY1 December 2000

Roger Foster-Smith

Coroner’s Officer

Robert Rumbold

Coroner’s Officer

 

WEDNESDAY 6 December 2000

Dr Richard Shepherd

Lead Pathologist (lecturer in forensic medicine in the Department of Forensic Medicine, Guy’s Hospital).

Robin Viner

Senior Identification Officer (civilian but attached to Metropolitan Police).

Anthony Strong

Identification Officer (employed by Metropolitan Police).

Jonathan Walshe

Detective Sergeant.

Jeffrey Sinnott

Detective Constable – Part of Relative Liaison Team.

Initial role to interview crew of Bowbelle. Then sent to Westminster Mortuary as second in charge under DI Raison.

 

 

THURSDAY 7 December 2000

Christopher Wickenden  

Dr Dolman

Joint proprietor of Christopher Wickenden Funeral Services. Undertaker for Simon Senior.

Acting Deputy Mortuary Manager at Westminster Mortuary.

(2pm)      

Bruce Grant

Currently Assistant Director in SO3 Directorate of Identification, Specialist Operations Department, New Scotland Yard. Head of Metropolitan Police Service Fingerprint Bureau.

Deputy Coroner to D Knapman

Robert Thompson

Acting Deputy Mortuary Manager at Westminster Mortuary

 

FRIDAY 8 December 2000

Dr Paul Knapman  9:30am

Coroner for Inner West London.

 

THURSDAY 14 December 2000

10am Start - Short Oral Submissions for Part 1 

Marchioness Action Group          45 Minutes

Marchioness Contact Group        45 Minutes

Dr. Shepherd                              15 Minutes

Mortuary Staff                             15 Minutes

Police                                        45 Minutes

Dr. Knapman                              45 Minutes

MONDAY 18 December 2000

9.00 - 10.15am  - Service of Remembrance and Dedication  

10.30am Start   - Public Meeting to consider the terms of reference for Part 2 of the NSI paragraphs 2 and 3 of Terms of Reference:

 

2.        To review and to report on the procedures currently followed when establishing the identity of victims    

           following similar accidents.

  

3.        In the interests of minimising distress to the families of the victims:

 

(1). to advise on what additional procedures should be followed, if any, when the need to identify victims arises following similar accidents, and

 (2). to consider and advise on procedures for the notification and involvement of the next of kin in cases when it is necessary to establish the identity of such victims