The inquest does not normally name any individual person as responsible.[2] InR (on the application of Maughan) v Her Majesty's Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire[3] the Supreme Court clarified that the standard of proof for suicide and unlawful killing in an inquest is the civil standard of the balance of probabilities and not the criminal standard of beyond reasonable doubt.[4]
6 May 1953:Ronald Maddison, an airman who died whilst acting as an experimental subject in chemical weapons testing in 1953. A verdict of unlawful killing was returned in a 2004 inquest; the original 1953 inquest had returned a verdict of misadventure.[5]
14 February 1981: 48 people died followinga fire at Stardust nightclub inDublin. In April 2024, the jury of an inquest at Dublin District Coroners Court returned a verdict of unlawful killing.[6]
7 July 2005: The fifty-two victims of the7 July 2005 London bombings were declared on 6 May 2011 to have been unlawfully killed.[12]
1 April 2009:Ian Tomlinson, who was struck with a baton and pushed to the ground by Metropolitan Police officer Simon Harwood at theG20 protests in London.[13]
1 July 2009: Lt ColRupert Thorneloe and Trooper Joshua Hammond, of the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, were killed in an explosion in Helmand Province in Afghanistan.[14]
22 March 2003:Terry Lloyd, ITN journalist, who was fired on by United States tanks nearBasra.[15]
^the Hillsborough disaster occurred on 15 April 1989; 94 people died on the day, with the 95th the following day,Tony Bland in 1993, and a 97th person in 2021. All 97 deaths are considered unlawful
^Lord Mackay of Clashfern (ed.) (2006)Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th ed. reissue, vol.9(2), "Coroners",1043. Killed unlawfully
^R (on the application of Maughan) v Her Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire[2020] UKSC 46, [2021] 3 All ER 1, [2021] AC 454, [2020] 3 WLR 1298, [2021] Med LR 1, [2020] Inquest LR 175, (2021) 178 BMLR 1 (13 November 2020),Supreme Court (UK)
^"Coroners".The Crown Prosecution Service. Retrieved25 August 2021.
