Coroner thinks again

Freelance journalist successfully challenges secretive inquest

A coroner who refused to publish the findings of an inquest has reversed his position after a challenge by the media.

Crispin Butler, HM Senior Coroner for Buckinghamshire, announced last October that the inquest into the death of Graham Robert Whelan, 38, who died last year at his home in Wendover, would be “completed in writing” — without an oral heari…