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What is a coroner?

What is a coroner? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A public official who presides over an inquest into unnatural deaths, cases of treasure trove, and debris from shipwrecks.
  2. (Canada, US) A medical doctor who performs autopsies and determines time and cause of death from a scientific standpoint.
  3. The administrative head of a sheading.
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You rightly said that the royal coroner announced earlier this year that there would be an inquest.
There has been a damning indictment of living conditions at a remote Aboriginal community by the West Australian coroner.
The jury later wrote to the coroner, deploring the fact that an unseaworthy ship could put to sea with a drunken captain.
The coroner accordingly left that verdict to the jury, and the jury returned a unanimous verdict of unlawful killing.
The coroner recorded verdicts that the boys were unlawfully killed and their father took his own life.
The coroner has written in acknowledgement, and will report in more detail at a later date.

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