Investigations and inquests in Mid Kent and Medway
This area covers the district council areas of Maidstone, Medway, Tonbridge and Malling (part), Swale (part).
Inquests for this area are normally held at Archbishops Palace, Maidstone unless stated otherwise.
The Senior Coroner for this area is Patricia Harding.
Contact Kent and Medway Coroner Service
Telephone: 03000 41 05 02 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm)
Email: KentandMedwayCoroners@kent.gov.uk
Address: Coroner Service Team, Cantium House, Sandling Road, Maidstone, ME14 1XD
Inquests to be heard
The following listings are all provisional and may be subject to changes in date or time even at a late stage in proceedings. If you are intending to attend an inquest please check the listing the day before you are expecting the inquest to be heard for any revisions to time or date.
Inquests can also be listed at short notice and may not always appear on this page. If you are expecting an inquest to be listed and it does not appear on the page below please telephone or email general enquiries using the contact details above.
| Type | Date | Time | Place of inquest | Name | Age | Date of death | Place of death |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre inquest review | 24 June 2022 | 10:30am | County Hall, Maidstone | John Henderson | 54 | 27 May 2021 | Rochester |
| Inquest | 24 June 2022 | 11:30am | County Hall, Maidstone | Poppy Yerrall | 19 | 3 April 2022 | Rochester |
| Inquest | 24 June 2022 | 2pm | County Hall, Maidstone | Iain Pannell | 49 | 25 January 2022 | Maidstone Hospital |
| Inquest | 27 June 2022 | 3pm | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Kalia Menshi | 37 | 16 June 2021 | Tonbridge |
| Inquest | 28 June 2022 | 10:30am | County Hall, Maidstone | Steven Willis | 35 | 26 March 2022 | Maidstone Hospital |
| Inquest | 28 June 2022 | 11:30am | County Hall, Maidstone | Barry Green | 72 | 8 April 2022 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Inquest | 28 June 2022 | 12pm | County Hall, Maidstone | Jean Watts | 98 | 9 June 2022 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Inquest | 28 June 2022 | 2pm | County Hall, Maidstone | Peter Kay-Hinsey | 31 | 4 April 2022 | Chatham |
| Pre inquest review | 28 June 2022 | 3pm | County Hall, Maidstone | Edward Rudd | 38 | 15 July 2021 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Inquest | 5 July 2022 | 10am | County Hall, Maidstone | Jacqueline Purnell | 59 | 24 December 2021 | Sutton Valence |
| Inquest | 5 July 2022 | 10am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Ashleigh Wallis | 22 | 18 November 2021 | Taiwan |
| Inquest | 5 July 2022 | 11am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Johnhenry Brazil | 23 | 28 August 2021 | West Malling |
| Inquest | 5 July 2022 | 12pm | County Hall, Maidstone | Samuel Iwelu | 34 | 4 November 2021 | Nigeria |
| Inquest | 5 July 2022 | 2pm | County Hall, Maidstone | Barry Hastings | 76 | 11 July 2021 | Eastchurch |
| Inquest | 5 July 2022 | 2pm | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Kevin Tomney | 62 | 27 February 2022 | Kings College Hospital |
| Inquest | 5 July 2022 | 3pm | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Annie Taylor | 90 | 6 May 2022 | Maidstone |
| Inquest | 6 July 2022 | 10am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Norah Neale | 94 | 16 December 2021 | St Thomas' Hospital London |
| Inquest | 7 July 2022 | 10am | County Hall, Maidstone | Pamela Smith | 90 | 2 May 2022 | Maidstone Hospital |
| Inquest | 7 July 2022 | 10:30am | County Hall, Maidstone | Brenda Eldridge | 83 | 16 June 2022 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Inquest | 7 July 2022 | 11am | County Hall, Maidstone | Edna West | 93 | 11 June 2022 | Maidstone |
| Inquest | 8 July 2022 | 3:30pm | County Hall, Maidstone | William Hall | 82 | 18 November 2022 | Chatham |
| Inquest | 11 to 12 July 2022 | 10am | County Hall, Maidstone | Alan Miller | 85 | 19 November 2021 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Inquest | 11 July 2022 | 2pm | County Hall, Maidstone | Angela Clark | 83 | 20 November 2021 | Ashford |
| Inquest | 12 July 2022 | 10am | County Hall, Maidstone | Brenda Baker | 89 | 26 February 2022 | Maidstone Hospital |
| Pre inquest review | 12 July 2022 | 11:30am | County Hall, Maidstone | John Henderson | 54 | 27 May 2021 | Rochester |
| Inquest | 12 July 2022 | 2:30pm | County Hall, Maidstone | William Crowe | 73 | 1 April 2022 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Inquest | 12 July 2022 | 3pm | County Hall, Maidstone | Jane Applegate | 56 | 18 April 2022 | Gillingham |
| Inquest | 12 July 2022 | 3:30pm | County Hall, Maidstone | Anthony Gregory | 73 | 21 April 2022 | Maidstone Hospital |
| Inquest | 13 to 15 July 2022 | 10am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Lesley Spearing | 55 | 10 October 2019 | Rainham |
| Inquest | 14 July 2022 | 10am | County Hall, Maidstone | Damien Cierpicki | 41 | 14 April 2022 | Chatham |
| Inquest | 14 July 2022 | 10:30am | County Hall, Maidstone | Natalie Mortimer | 27 | 21 April 2022 | St Thomas Hospital, London |
| Inquest | 14 July 2022 | 11:30am | County Hall, Maidstone | Robert Johnson | 77 | 14 April 2022 | Rochester |
| Inquest | 18 July 2022 | 10am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Peter Adams | 94 | 1 May 2022 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Pre inquest review | 18 July 2022 | 2pm | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Sally Cohen | 66 | 18 March 2022 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Inquest | 19 July 2022 | 10am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Kevin Brice | 57 | 1 February 2022 | Maidstone |
| Inquest | 19 July 2022 | 10am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Timothy South | 63 | 25 November 2021 | Rochester |
| Inquest | 19 July 2022 | 11am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Robert Mortley | 74 | 13 February 2022 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Inquest | 19 July 2022 | 11am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Reginald Price | 82 | 19 April 2022 | Tunbridge Wells Hospital |
| Inquest | 19 July 2022 | 11:30am | County Hall, Maidstone | Robert Alexander | 74 | 3 June 2022 | Sittingbourne |
| Inquest | 19 July 2022 | 2pm | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Robert Sansford | 68 | 10 October 2021 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Inquest | 25 July 2022 | 10am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Eileen Chapman | 90 | 9 April 2022 | Maidstone Hospital |
| Inquest | 25 July 2022 | 11am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Samantha Hanrahan | 21 | 11 April 2022 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Pre inquest review | 25 July 2022 | 12pm | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Scarlett-Rae Morton-Scullion | 3 months | 9 November 2021 | Kings College Hospital |
| Inquest | 25 to 26 July 2022 | 10:30am | County Hall, Maidstone | Anthony Ralph | 78 | 28 September 2021 | William Harvey Hospital |
| Inquest | 26 July 2022 | 10am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Geoffrey Jakopo | 46 | 15 January 2022 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Inquest | 26 July 2022 | 11am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Frankie Wright | 25 | 10 February 2022 | Kings College Hospital |
| Inquest | 26 July 2022 | 10:30am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Janice Webb | 65 | 4 May 2022 | Chatham |
| Pre inquest review | 26 July 2022 | 2pm | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Lesley Spearing | 55 | 10 October 2019 | Rainham |
| Inquest | 27 July 2022 | 10am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Violet Saunders | 91 | 6 June 2022 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Inquest | 1 to 12 August 2022 | 10am | Shepway Centre, Oxford Road | Edward Rudd | 38 | 15 July 2021 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Pre inquest review | 2 August 2022 | 10am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Stuart Esson | 41 | 12 February 2022 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Inquest | 2 August 2022 | 10am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Adrian Roe | 49 | 13 May 2022 | Maidstone |
| Inquest | 2 August 2022 | 10am | County Hall, Maidstone | Gloria Short | 89 | 18 April 2022 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Inquest | 2 August 2022 | 10:30am | County Hall, Maidstone | Zydrunas Vaitilonis | 42 | 10 May 2022 | Maidstone |
| Inquest | 2 August 2022 | 11am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Ann Diddams | 84 | 14 May 2022 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Inquest | 2 August 2022 | 2pm | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Shirley Crundwell | 87 | 12 March 2022 | Rochester |
| Inquest | 9 August 2022 | 11am | County Hall, Maidstone | Rosemary Mattocks | 87 | 15 June 2022 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Inquest | 15 and 16 August 2022 | 10am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Pauline Goffe | 69 | 27 January 2021 | William Harvey Hospital |
| Inquest | 16 August 2022 | 10am | County Hall, Maidstone | Stephen Briggs | 73 | 16 march 2022 | Sittingbourne |
| Inquest | 16 August 2022 | 10:30am | County Hall, Maidstone | Philip Clark | 52 | 17 February 2022 | Sheerness |
| Inquest | 16 August 2022 | 12pm | County Hall, Maidstone | Beverley Cushing | 58 | 31 May 2022 | Aylesford |
| Inquest | 16 August 2022 | 2pm | County Hall, Maidstone | Adrian Smissen | 42 | 13 June 2022 | Grovehurst |
| Inquest | 16 August 2022 | 3pm | County Hall, Maidstone | Adam Richards | 29 | 16 June 2022 | Sittingbourne |
| Inquest | 22 to 26 August 2022 | 10am | Shepway Centre, Oxford Road | Vincent Harvey | 62 | 15 December 2020 | Sheerness |
| Inquest | 30 August 2022 | 10am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Ryan Hughes | 17 | 10 March 2022 | Aylesford |
| Inquest | 30 August 2022 | 10:30am | County Hall, Maidstone | Joyce Vidler | 85 | 11 June 2022 | Maidstone Hospital |
| Inquest | 30 to 31 August 2022 | 10am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Rosanna Matthews | 32 days | 23 November 2020 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Inquest | 1 to 2 September 2022 | 10am | County Hall, Maidstone | Rosanna Matthews | 32 days | 23 November 2020 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Inquest | 13 September 2022 | 10am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Wayne Duck | 43 | 15 February 2022 | Kings College Hospital |
| Inquest | 13 September 2022 | 10am | County Hall, Maidstone | Charles Traverso | 46 | 9 March 2022 | Chatham |
| Inquest | 19 to 21 September 2022 | 10am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Lesley Spearing | 55 | 10 October 2019 | Rainham |
| Inquest | 22 to 23 September 2022 | 10am | County Hall, Maidstone | Lesley Spearing | 55 | 10 October 2019 | Rainham |
| Pre inquest review | 22 September 2022 | 10:30am | County Hall, Maidstone | Trevor Burchell | 56 | 12 February 2022 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Inquest | 26 to 28 September 2022 | 10am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Lesley Spearing | 55 | 10 October 2019 | Rainham |
| Inquest | 30 September 2022 | 10am | County Hall, Maidstone | Pamela Dartnell | 74 | 16 February 2022 | Medway Maritime Hospital |
| Pre inquest review | 12 October 2022 | 10:30am | County Hall, Maidstone | Luke Sparks | 31 | 2 April 2022 | Eastchurch |
| Inquest | 18 October 2022 | 10am | County Hall, Maidstone | Graham Balsdon | 61 | 17 May 2022 | Rochester |
| Inquest | 18 October 2022 | 11am | County Hall, Maidstone | Margaret McDonagh | 29 | 20 May 2022 | Sittingbourne |
| Pre inquest review | 9 November 2022 | 10am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Jamie Simmons | 41 | 4 March 2022 | Gillingham |
| Pre inquest review | 23 November 2022 | 10:30am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Benjamin Harrison | 42 | 10 May 2022 | Rochester |
| Inquest | 23 November 2022 | 2pm | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | John Gordon | 86 | 17 May 2022 | Maidstone Hospital |
| Inquest | 20 December 2022 | 10am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Liam Bentley | 25 | 6 June 2022 | Eastchurch |
| Inquest | 20 December 2022 | 11am | The Archbishops Palace, Maidstone | Harief Pearson | 25 | 1 June 2022 | Eastchurch |