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Coroners’ System and Death Certification

My hon. Friend speaks from direct experience of dealing with those families. If we are to ask men and women in the armed services to serve abroad, we should ensure that their relatives will be treated with dignity and respect. It is difficult to argue against what my he said. A case that I have been dealing with since I was first elected to this House—my first Adjournment debate was about it—concerns the death of Christopher Rochester, one of my constituents. It shows why it is wrong for the Bill to limit the application of coroner’s inquests when deaths occur abroad. Christopher was a young man of 24.