Maeve Boothby O'Neill - articles about her life, death and inquest

Probably best to ask @dave30th.
Online view was generally restricted to the coroner, or others speaking.
IIRC it was mainly Dave, other press, local and national and Jenny Wislon came with Dr Weir when he gave his evidence.

 

I don’t have a medical or eugenicist education. So I innately know this. For all my faults I am not evil I don’t think, so I wouldn’t wish to dehydrate anyone to death.

So it is a real shame that medical professionals needed to keep on and do this for a long time. Then had to have a review to tell them it’s best not to torture their dying patients.

You can see why disabled people might have a difficult time persuading medical professionals of this ideological position to keep us alive to treat to alleviate our suffering and help us thrive.

Maybe this examination of feeding and non feeding in healthcare leads to the heart and stomach of the non treatment paradigm. Maybe this is where we should focus our attention from now onwards.

 

I’m dreading next Friday, although not as much as Sarah Boothby and Sean O’Neill.

 

Yes, me also. I can’t imagine how they’ll feel, now and then.

 

Yes, me too. I got in touch with the Coroner's Office and was told that the prior Teams link should be used to gain access.
No other information such as time was offered. Previously we were asked to be online for 9.50am for a 10am start, with phone and camera off.
If anyone gets any information about time, please can you post it.

 

Very few were there. Apart from the first few days and the day when Sean and Sarah testified, it was generally me and maybe one other observer, and sometimes just me.

 

Does anyone here have access to the coroner's report and would like to share it with me? or know how to get hold of a copy?

 

It’s only for the parties at the inquest I think.

 

But this tweet from inquest says that that ”Copy of findings will be provided but some types will be corrected over the weekend to anyone that wants it.”

https://twitter.com/user/status/1821939506158747751

 

There was a press release regarding the report, but the report itself is only shown to the parties- not “given” to them. Coroners reports aren’t public. That tweet is just someone paraphrasing what the coroner said.

 

What is happening on Friday that people are referring to?

Sorry, haven't been fully keeping up with this

 

The final part of the Inquest - coroner will hear some more evidence and decided whether a “prevention of future deaths” section 28 report is necessary.

 

"Section 28"? Isn't that the now-repealed law which banned schools from teaching kids that it's okay to be gay etc?

 

That was section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988. The Coroner will deal with The Coroners and Justice Act 2009.
Lots of Acts have a section 28 or clause 28. There’s a very uninteresting s28 of the Equality Act 2010

 

Thanks, so what is section 28 of the coroners and justice act?

 

https://www.judiciary.uk/courts-and-tribunals/coroners-courts/reports-to-prevent-future-deaths/

Issued reports are public and viewable here:

https://www.judiciary.uk/?s=&pfd_report_type=&post_type=pfd&order=relevance

 

@Valerie Eliot Smith
Is there a simple explanation for this ?

https://twitter.com/user/status/1839198895051620398



#MaeveInquest 10:00 Friday 27 September 2024 coroner@devon.gov.uk for the live link.
This is the 13th hearing. 1 witness who has submitted 3 separate statements. Why was he not called BEFORE HMAC concluded? Why has she not published half the facts heard? Whose court is it?

 

Thanks for the mention @Amw66

I assume the first question refers to Dr Anthony Hemsley who is giving evidence tomorrow at the hearing when the Coroner will consider whether or not to write a Section 28 Prevention of Future Deaths Report.

Dr Hemsley was appointed as Medical Director to the RDUH Trust in June 2021, over half way through the period covered by the inquest. As such, he would have had little/no direct involvement in Maeve's case. The handling of Maeve's case was addressed during the main inquest hearing by the clinicians who were directly involved in her care.

I haven't seen Dr Hemsley's statements. However, I imagine that, given his position and the timing of his appointment, the relevance of his evidence goes to how the Trust has addressed the issues arising from Maeve's case since her death rather than adding anything further to what happened between January and October 2021. I assume that this is why the Coroner is hearing from him tomorrow and why he was not called during the earlier proceedings.

The other two questions in that X post are presumably rhetorical so any answer would be purely speculative in the absence of any further information.