MAN: There are countless factors that can lead to your death.
As senior coroner,
I deal with nearly 4,500 fatalities a year.
NARRATOR: The coroner can make any inquiries necessary
to find a cause of death.
MAN: The police act on behalf of the coroner.
If the coroner asks, we do it.
We need to be alert to the fact
there could be something more sinister in this.
With unprecedented access, we follow the coroner's full investigation...
It does make you realise how fragile life is.
Let's start and just work our way up.
Forensic medicine is all about being very suspicious.
...from the moment of arrival in the mortuary
to the final conclusion of the inquest.
All rise.
I'm sorry that you're attending court under these circumstances,
and I appreciate
that the evidence that you will hear today may be distressing.
I never thought I'd find myself in a coroner's court.
You shouldn't have to organise a funeral for your children.
If you die here, if it's violent, unnatural,
or of an unknown cause, it's my job to find out how.
WHIRRING
Police have been called to a flat in Preston.
A man is known to live there alone,
and neighbours are concerned about his welfare.
The man has been found deceased.
The man has been named as 63-year-old Raymond Rahamatally,
and he has been transported to the mortuary at Royal Preston Hospital.
So, the police had reported to us
that they'd received a call from a concerned friend
with regards to Raymond, that they've not seen him for some time.
Although all the circumstances, details within the property
directed them to believe that it was Raymond,
there was nobody that could do that formal identification at the scene.
Family had provided us with some photographs of Raymond.
However, they were from some time ago,
from when he was quite young,
so we couldn't actually use those photographs
for the formal identification.
So they've agreed to come to the mortuary today
to do that formal identification for us.
This will be clone behind glass,
and that's purely clue to the circumstances
of how he's been found.
This will be quite difficult.
It's trying to explain to the family now
the next stages of the process
so we can then confirm what he's died from.
Today is to help us with the formal identification. Mm-hm.
He looks like he's sleeping, but just to be mindful,
there are some marks around his chin area,
I think they're like sores, probably in keeping with his skin condition,
but just to make you aware,
there are some marks around the mouth area
and the chin. Is that OK? Yeah.
Are you all right to go through?
Raymond's family last saw him around three weeks ago.
OK.
So, can you confirm that that is Raymond?
It is Raymond, yes. It is? OK. Yeah.
Do we know what the marks are around his mouth at all?
I'm not quite sure.
They look like sores, so whether it's part of his skin condition,
whether he's fallen...
Do you know... What was his mobility like?
He could walk, but obviously...
I don't know if you've seen his legs.
The police did say that his legs were very bad... Yes.
...with the ulcers. They'd been like that for a long time.
Bizarre, cos he didn't have anything like that when we last saw him.
He did have a little sore sort of around his eye,
but there was nothing around his mouth at all.
Coroner's officer manager Alice
needs to find out as much as she can about Raymond from his family
to begin the investigation into his death.
Did he drink at all? No.
No drink, no drugs, didn't smoke? No, nothing, no.
There is a family history of heart problems as well.
OK. What heart problems?
My mother's parents died quite young.
I think they were in their 40s, early 50s.
Ancl that was heart failure? Yes.
OK. It was, yes.
His grandparents? Grandma's sisters as well.
They all died young.
Oh, yeah, my mother's sister died...
So, there's a history of... ..at about 36.
...heart disease within the family?
So what we'll do is now,
I'll process this through to the coroner,
I'll confirm that the formal identification has taken place.
They“ then authoflse a CT post-modem,
and as soon as I get any results through,
I'll give you a call, let you know. Thanks very much for your help.
So, at this moment in time, we don't know how he's cited.
All we know are the circumstances of when he was last seen
by neighbours, by family.
They did comment, though, about family history of heart conditions.
So I'll make a note of that to the coroner,
but also for the radiologist, for when they're reviewing the scan,
so they can maybe look more particular around the heart area
to see if there's an underlying heart condition
they weren't aware he had.
We just don't know at this moment in time.
Sometimes, it is a bit weird if you're the first one in,
everywhere's dark,
and obviously, doing it for so long, you just get used to it.
So, we open everywhere up first, open the shutter,
all the doors, office doors.
We'll go into the fridge room and see who's come in overnight,
start to measure them up for coffin sizes and things like that.
I suppose if you thought about it too much,
how many people are in the fridge, it could almost upset you a bit,
and I suppose, for some people, that might scare them a bit
cos there's so many people in here that have passed away.
But I just see it that I'm just looking after them,
and I'm looking after the ones that have then come into us overnight,
and make sure that everybody's in the condition
that they should be for the start of the clay.
NARRATOR: The coroner has opened up an investigation
into a man found deceased in his flat
who hadn't been seen by his family for almost three weeks.
Raymond Rahamatally was a 63-year-old gentleman
who lived alone, and he was last seen around Christmas time.
However, his neighbour raised a concern for his welfare
because she'd seen that the light in his flat had been on
since New Year, and it was now the 12th ofjanuary.
So police attended for a welfare call
and found Mr Rahamatally deceased inside.
What they have noted when they were checking Raymond
was that the lower part of his legs
and his feet had sores on them, a bit like ulcers,
that obviously caused a bit of concern, because the...
His trousers had actually stuck to those sores on his legs.
So, the family stated that Raymond suffered with 0CD,
washed his hands a lot, which caused the skin to become red and itchy.
They also confirmed he had circulatory problems
and the condition with the lower part of his legs,
which looked a bit like ulcers.
Ancl he was a bit of a recluse, kept himself to himself,
and he's not wanted to accept any help or support
from any of his neighbours, family or the GP.
So what we'll do is, we'll process this
through to the coroner for a CT post-mortem.
The coroner may request for an invasive post-mortem.
We're not quite sure at this time, so we'll wait and see what happens.
We saw Raymond at Christmas,
and we went round again in the new year,
but we couldn't get an answer.
Raymond was kind of a reclusive character.
Not easy to talk to,
very insular.
We always knew he kind of had issues and difficulties.
Sometimes, he didn't answer his door, though,
when we went round, so we just thought,
"Well, we'll call back in a couple of weeks, see how he is."
But we didn't get to call back in a couple of weeks, no.
I'd like to know exactly what's happened and why it happened.
At the end of the clay, I need the facts. I'd like the facts.
A post-mortem CT scan
may provide answers to the cause of Raymond's death.
But before the scan takes place,
there needs to be an external examination.
So, I've got Raymond.
Mm-hm. Yeah. Right wrist. OK.
Pacemaker? None seen.
Hypostasis? Posterior.
Yes.
Skin slip to lower legs, right arm.
So, around his eyes and nose,
he's got, like, this white material.
OK.
Dry, flaky skin to the whole of the body,
and some cracking to the skin on the hands.
Extensive ulcerated areas.
Just some pictures, yeah. Yeah, do photos, yeah? Please.
Just take a closer one of his legs.
The photos are just good for them to look at
if they're in a bit of a bad way. His legs are quite bad.
It's important we've got the picture as well as, you know,
the description on the external.
Raymond was a very individual type. Very much into rock and roll.
But a really big, big fan of football.
Used to go a lot with his father to Preston North End,
and he played as well.
Ancl Raymond was excellent at football.
He had a real hardcore dream of playing for Preston North End
and did go for trials
and was heavily involved in the younger team.
He was very good, so much so that on one occasion,
there was an international match at Preston North End.
Apparently, Raymond scored the winning goal.
And what we had round at our house afterwards
was quite a large group of, in the majority, girls
all shouting Raymond's name in the street for him to come down.
I remember my mother saying, "Oh, you know, make them go away,
"they're annoying the neighbours!"
He did believe that he was on the road
to something that he really wanted to do.
Raymond, he was about 17, 18,
he injured his knee quite badly, and, unfortunately,
he failed the trial for Preston North End
when he went for it.
Ancl when they turned him down, that was...
That kind of finished him, really.
And he got an ofter from Blackburn Rovers,
so it wasn't as though he wasn't good enough full stop.
For him, it was Preston or nothing, really.
After that, he sort of lost his way a little bit.
He had a few jobs but didn't really take to anything at all.
I think that was the start of him becoming quite isolated, really,
within himself.
A post-mortem CT scan may help to understand Raymond's cause of death.
So, we're gonna start by doing a full body scan.
We're looking for anything glaringly obvious as we go.
So, initially,
there doesn't appear to be anything obvious going on in his head,
or any sort of ruptures of his aorta
or anything like that that could have been a clear cause of death.
Looking down at his legs, you can see there's some skin changes.
So, there is something going on with his lower legs, I would say.
So, you can sort of see the difference.
The area above the knee, you can see the border of the skin
is nice and smooth, and that's what we'd normally expect to see.
And as we come down into the lower legs,
you can sort of see the texture changes quite dramatically.
There only appears to be a small amount of calcium
within the heart, there's a tiny little speck here.
You can see the area of white within the coronary artery.
That's the calcification there.
We will, however, get all these sent on to our radiologist,
who will put together a final report to send on to the coroner.
Police are en route to an address in Preston following an emergency call.
At about quarter to six this morning,
Lancashire Police receive a call from an address in Preston.
There is the body of a male, a shotgun
and several rounds of ammunition.
And the ca“ ended.
Given that very limited information,
armed response officers were deployed to the address.
And quite quickly, a white male was found deceased
in a rear outbuilding.
At this moment in time, the male remains in situ,
as does the firearm.
The first priority this morning is to ensure that firearm is safe,
to enable it to be removed.
It is quite shocking to receive that type of call.
I'm on duty cover today, I actually got the phone call at home,
and it does affect you a little bit.
He's a man of similar age to me.
The man has been transported to the mortuary at Royal Preston Hospital
and the case referred to the coroners' office.
RINGING
'Hello, Alice.'
I just want to run a case past you, if that's OK?
'Sure.' We received a referral
from the police with regards to a gentleman.
He'd contacted them yesterday with concerns for his welfare,
and when police have got there,
they found him deceased with a shotgun next to him.
I'm going to be processing it through for an external examination.
'If they can check for bruising on the back of the thumb,
'because when the shotgun kicks, there's usually bruising
'on one side of the thumb.
'So if they could check for that,
'it's a sign that he was using the shotgun himself.'
That's no problem. I'll process that through now for authorisation.
'Fine, OK.' Thank you very much.
The next stage now will be to open up an investigation,
where we'll start making inquiries with regards to the circumstances -
what's led to what's happened.
We'll speak to his family,
and we'll also contact the relevant agencies involved.
The family have agreed for his story to be told
but want him to remain anonymous.
His friend has agreed for his words to be read by an actor.
I had a message saying "call me" from his next door neighbour.
And then I said "OK, I'll come over."
And then I looked online very quickly
and I saw that the police had attended an incident of a shooting.
As soon as I got that message, I knew he had left us.
Police have discovered
the man was an army veteran with over 30 years' service.
I've just been to this address where this incident's taken place.
He was clearly very proud of serving in the armed forces.
He's got lots of memorabilia,
he's got replica firearms on his wall as ornaments.
He's got certificates from all over the world where he's served
and represented the country in the armed forces.
He was a great soldier, and he loved it.
He was military through and through.
He was in just about every war zone you could think of.
He was in Northern Ireland, he was in Bosnia,
he was in Afghanistan, he was in the Gulf War.
Everywhere there was something going on, he was there.
Whether you call it conflict or whether you call it war,
it was a tough place to be.
People lost friends and comrades,
and that caused him a lot of sleepless nights as a young soldier.
The police will be looking to see whether or not
this is someone acting alone...
...or whether there are other people involved,
and in what way they might be involved.
NARRATOR: The coroner's office has been investigating the case
of 63-year-old Raymond Rahamatally, who was found deceased at home.
They've been able to examine his medical records.
Raymond Rahamatally has a past history
of a significant skin condition
which may or may not become infected.
He has some heart disease,
and he also has some fairly minor mental health issues.
But at the moment,
it's uncertain as to how any of these bear upon the cause of death.
Raymond also had a history of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
In his case, this led to excessive hand washing.
Raymond's had OCD for a long, long time,
certainly the washing of his hands, because his hands become quite sore,
because he used to wash them about 20, 30, 40 times a clay maybe.
About half an hour he'd spend in the toilet
continually washing his hands.
It was really bad, erm...
where his skin would become quite raw and split.
So he'd get a lot of lacerations,
just because the skin had been excessively washed.
So it was a compulsive disorder, for definite.
Telling him to get it looked out or get treatment or, you know,
that he had an issue, it was just a non-starter.
It was completely off topic.
Mental health and physical health are interrelated.
So if you have got long-term conditions that affect your health,
you're quite likely to suffer from a mental health condition as well.
But equally, if you have got mental health issues such as depression,
the risk of diabetes, stroke or heart disease also rises.
So, these are interlinked, and how they affect different people
depends upon the severity of their mental or physical health disease.
Yeah, it's just sad.
The idea that's how he's been found in that kind of manner on his own,
when he...
There could have been interventions or things that can be done
if he'd been more willing to accept the issues he had, really.
Fairly important that we find out.
There was multiple issues,
and to kind of get it clearly defined,
exactly what was the cause of him passing away,
that kind of provides some closure at least.
To help establish a cause of death,
Raymond's post-mortem CT scan is being assessed by a radiologist.
There's a history of heart disease,
and there is also marked skin problems involving his lower legs.
They were both oozing.
This is the skin, it's all ulcerated and thickened.
So, this would raise the possibility of an underlying septicaemia
following his skin condition in his legs
as being a possible cause of death.
Although we don't know whether he was septic beforehand,
we don't know if anybody's seen him, whether he was high temperature,
whether he was sweating,
whether showing signs of sepsis at all.
Now, the only other thing that we can see on the scan
is he does have some calcium in his coronary artery,
which could lead to a significant narrowing. It's only small.
But I note there is a family history of heart disease.
So the question here would be,
has he had a fatal cardiac event related to heart failure,
or has he died of septicaemia clue to his leg condition?
Ancl so, therefore, an invasive post-mortem
might help to decide
which condition is more likely to have to have led to Raymond's death.
The coroner is also investigating the death of a military veteran
who was found deceased at home with fatal injuries.
You are looking for, has there been any disruption of the scene,
any alteration to the evidence?
You're also looking to see whether there is
any bruising on the thumb of the dominant hand.
It's the duty of the coroner's office
to update the man's next of kin on the next steps of his case.
I'm just calling to let you know that I've spoken with the coroner
and we're doing an external examination
to determine cause of death.
It should be clone in the next couple of clays.
So as soon as the coroner authorises the results
of the external examination,
we'll then be able to send the release paperwork through
to the funeral directors.
I'll be in touch. Bye-bye.
A pathologist has been asked to carry out
an external examination to prepare a report for the coroner.
We're not going to look at the internal organs.
We're just going to look at the outside of the body
to examine the wounds that he has.
And we've got a fit man.
He has DNR tattooed on his chest.
DNR meaning, I assume,
"do not resuscitate", so that's interesting.
Let's start at the bottom and just work our way up.
So, feet are good.
Legs. No marks or injuries.
Working my WaY UP-
We don't know if he's right or left-handed,
so we're going to assume that he's right.
But we're going to check the left thumb as well.
What I'm looking for now is bruising that may be around the thumb.
Neither of the thumbs has any injury to it.
So, we're working up to his head.
His head... We've got blood in the ears.
There's a 17cm laceration.
We've got fragmentation and an obvious cause of death.
The worst thing would be to think
that there's a family out there not getting the answers
to the questions they've got in their heads.
It is nice knowing that we are a part of the process
of the family then being able to grieve
once they've got the answers to their questions.
It is really sad.
It does make you realise how fragile life is.
Detective Inspector Steve Monk
is investigating the circumstances around the man's death.
It's very rare, certainly within my experience,
to deal with incidents where somebody has shot them self.
This is probably only my second or third in 26 years.
He's left a note to the police,
actually apologising for what they were gonna find,
and making reference that he struggled on Civvy Street
once he'd left the army.
He'd even taken his TVs off the wall and placed them in his conservatory.
He'd even sorted a funeral plan.
It would appear, at this stage,
to be a very tragic set of circumstances.
Former soldier Ray Howard
offers help to ex-service personnel who are struggling.
There's a link on there where you can find employment.
His support is based on his own experience.
I served 22 years in the army, a few years in Northern Ireland,
and I was also in the Gulf War,
which is where I contracted PTSD through active service.
Incidents occurred that I don't really wish to remember,
but I can't forget, which is what PTSD really is.
PTSD will manifest itself in different ways in different people.
You'll be angry.
You can sometimes think you're looking at yourself from above,
thinking, "Why am I doing this, why am I doing that?"
Ancl you've got no reason, no answer for it.
The military veteran is being collected from the mortuary
for his funeral.
In my mind, it was when he got back from Bosnia.
You look out for signs anyway,
but it was when I said to him, "How was Bosnia?"
And he said, "Oh, yeah, it didn't affect me."
And I saw his hand shaking a little bit.
I knew straightaway something had happened.
I'm not sure that he was ever diagnosed with PTSD from a doctor,
but I think that you could see that there was something not right.
He couldn't adapt to society, he couldn't find that balance.
So I think it was adapting to society that was destroying him.
The coroner has received the pathologist's report
from the post-mortem examination of the former soldier.
From Dr Shepherd's findings,
it appears that the gentleman was acting alone,
that this is an unnatural death, and this will proceed to an inquest.
It's just a very, very sad... a sad story, really.
Ancl one of the turning points in his life
was his dog very sadly passed away the back end of last year,
and he said he just couldn't cope without his dog.
At the forefront
of all the armed forces memorabilia on his wall,
in prime position, is what I would describe as a dog collar.
MALE FRIEND: He would say to me that the only reason he's alive
is because of his dog.
He phoned me in 2023 because his dog had died.
He was grieving like you would if you lost your own child.
In a letter he sent me,
he actually said that he hadn't expected his dog to die so soon.
I don't think there was anything I could have done.
The coroner has also been investigating
the death of 63-year-old Raymond Rahamatally,
who lived alone and hadn't been seen by his family
for nearly three weeks.
How old was he there? He'd been 18, I'd have thought.
I think in that one he's about, ooh, 17-ish.
He was very much into rock and roll. That was the look, at the time.
The Freddie Mercury era, and Queen,
and all the other rock groups that were around at the time.
He grew his hair, so he looked very similar
to some of the guys in the... Oh, the rockers, yeah.
...in the rock band as well. Often, he just wouldn't let us in.
So it wasn't even like there'd be an invite into the flat.
It was just kind of we'd be at the door, say,
"Hi, how are you doing?" He wouldn't say, "Oh, come in."
You couldn't, anyway. It was a bit of a state.
It was literally like, "ls there anything we can do for you?"
"No, no. I'm all right." Ancl that was it.
If someone is refusing help
or doesn't believe there's anything wrong with them,
is it perhaps the right thing to do to force help on them?
It's a very difficult one. Very difficult.
There are a range of reasons why people do not accept help.
It may be that that is the make-up of their personality,
it may be that they have a mental health condition
that prevents them engaging with it.
Others, it may be ignorance of the availability of health care.
These cases are very sad
because despite however much people love this person,
they will not accept the help that's offered to them,
even though it seems obvious to everybody around them
that they absolutely need this assistance.
Raymond was reclusive,
and neighbours raised concerns for his welfare.
With no clear cause of death revealed by his post-mortem CT scan,
the coroner has asked for a limited invasive post-mortem.
My question is, can I find anything
that will advance the information that we've got from the CT autopsy
and provide a more substantive cause of death
and also exclude the coroner's concerns
in terms of neglect or sepsis?
165cm, weight 66kg.
There are no signs of trauma or violence. Stop.
Ancl this gentleman has obviously quite a severe skin infection.
It's very difficult where the skin is constantly cracking,
and those cracks are a perfect portal for bacteria.
Ancl it's entirely possible that infections from his skin
will have travelled through his blood
and may have set up an abscess somewhere else in his body
which may have contributed to his confusion.
So, at the moment, there's no sign of any pus collections
in the chest or the abdomen.
So, the CT scan is showing that there was some calcification
in the coronary arteries, the heart -
that's the blood vessels which supply the heart -
but it doesn't give you the same view as you as you get
if you're actually holding the heart and dissecting out
the coronary arteries.
So I'm gonna check that now.
I can see the calcification, which was noted at the CT scan.
There's quite a significant narrowing of the coronary artery,
probably about 80%.
Blood would find it probably difficult to go past that,
and that could be the cause of death.
One of the major functions of doing an autopsy is helping relatives.
What we can do is help the families with answering questions.
We can help the families with perhaps genetic diseases.
If we find a case of unexplained death
which we suspect might be clue to cardiac problems,
then we will chase that down
and make sure that the relatives are screened.
It's very important that we provide as much information
in an understandable format to the families as we can.
It is important that we find out.
If it's anything that is hereditary,
obviously with the heart disease from my grandma's side,
or if it was purely a skin condition
that kind of got to a point where he'd let that go so badly,
then that was the main cause of him passing away, really.
We have some samples for toxicology.
I'd just like to check those
to find out whether he was taking any pain medication
or any other over-the-counter prescriptions.
His obvious problems with his legs were not being addressed,
they weren't surgically dressed.
Ancl he may well have had a low level of sepsis,
which would have challenged him physiologically.
So, I'm just balancing those up at the moment in my head
and just trying to think about what the best way of formulating this is.
Before Professor Dawson can produce a final report
for the coroner to help provide the family with answers,
he will need the results of the toxicology testing.
Professor Dawson, having clone the post-mortem,
says that he has never seen the like of this gentleman's skin complaint.
It's extremely serious,
it's very septic, it's very infected,
and he has said that he possibly would have been confused.
Now, the difficulty we have
is that he could also have been taking over-the-counter medication
that added to his confusion.
Because there's a concern here as to why,
given the severity of the infection of his legs, he didn't seek help.
So toxicology's necessary
to see if there was anything else in his system
that was affecting the state of his mind.
It's the day of the military veteran's inquest.
So, we've received a statement from the Ministry of Defence.
That was following an email that I'd sent to them
requesting for his records.
So, what they've said
is that he served with the army for 34 years.
His performance was nothing short than exemplary.
He was awarded various medals and awards,
he was a seasoned all-rounder
who had traits of an old solider who digs in and makes things happen.
WOMAN: All rise.
Can I just say how sorry I am that you're attending court this morning
under these circumstances?
The major finding was the injury caused by the discharge of a gun
that clearly caused an immediately fatal injury.
I couldn't find any evidence of any injury elsewhere on the body,
and there was no injury to suggest that anyone else had been involved.
The evidence that he intended to take his own life
included contacting the police, the letters that he left,
and the positioning and the use of the shotgun.
This is a tragic death of a solider
who obviously had a very distinguished army career
and, after leaving, had difficulty adjusting to civilian life.
The cause of death in this case is that of a shotgun wound.
Maybe something can be done in service before somebody leaves
so there's better training, I suppose,
for the outside world to understand, to a certain extent,
the characteristics of soldiers and what they're doing.
Leaving one disciplined service,
coming out into a world which is completely different
to what they've known.
And I think if people could just understand,
then they might start to look at people like him
and say, "Right, what can we do?"
Latest figures show there were more than 250 suicides
amongst UK armed forces veterans in just one year.
Ray Howard founded the Facebook site
Suicides Amongst Veterans Everywhere.
We have 1.2K members.
95% of those are veterans.
The rest are families of, or friends.
We have a chat line on here, it's open 24 hours.
Ancl if somebody calls, I'll speak to them until they're happy.
It could be five minutes, could be four hours.
If it helps one person from harming them self
or gets them out of a depression, then that's job clone.
That's all we're here for.
Before his death, the former soldier had organised his own funeral.
MALE FRIEND: I was grateful in my life to have him as my friend.
He was the kindest person you'd ever wanna meet.
And he said thank you in his letter to me for being his friend,
and that meant a lot.
He might have left in the physical sense,
but he's very much alive in my mind.
And he will be, you know, forever.
The coroner has also been investigating the death
of 63-year-old Raymond Rahamatally.
Toxicology's been returned,
and although it has detected some substances,
none of them would have caused sedation or confusion.
So that does not form any further part of our investigations.
So the cause of death is the cardiac disease,
the narrowing of the coronary arteries,
and severe ichthyosis in the lower leg,
which is a drying and cracking of the skin
that allows infection in,
causing sepsis that is sufficient to have caused confusion.
So this gentleman may not have understood the significance
of the illness that was facing him
and may not have sought help in his final clays,
because of this infection clouding his judgement.
Hi, Selima, it's Alice Swarbrick, coroners' officer.
So, we've got the post-mortem report back for Raymond,
and the cause of death that's come back is coronary artery disease
and severe septic lower leg ichthyosis, untreated.
So that's the condition he had in his lower legs.
UK?
But what the coroner has asked me to talk to you about
is that family maybe seek some medical advice
to get an assessment
to see whether there's any hereditary
or genetic related disease.
OK? So, that is a...
a natural cause of death now, that's going to be signed off.
There's no more involvement for the coroner.
So you can now make an appointment with the registrars
so you can get that final death certificate.
Thank you. Take care.
Bye-bye.
When I did hear that Raymond had passed,
I thought, "Well, at least he's not got any problems now."
The main thing that I thought was, "Well, at least now he's with Dad."
Because my father always wanted him to be looked after.
Ancl I do believe that life continues.
There is far, far more for us all, for everybody,
whether people believe or not. This isn't the end.
A section on the outside of the left ear has been removed.
We need to sort out what the sequence of events are,
because at the moment, we don't know what's happened.
She was such a young person.
It's really hard knowing that she's not here anymore.
This is one that I've never dealt with before
and I hope I don't have to again.