Andrew Walker (barrister)
Andrew Walker (born 1963) is an English barrister and coroner for Northern District of Greater London.
Career as a coroner
In June 2006 he was appointed on temporary contract as assistant deputy coroner in Oxfordshire, one of three temporary appointees to assist in reducing a backlog of inquests into the deaths of British military personnel overseas.[1] Bodies of those servicemen dying overseas are repatriated to the UK via RAF Brize Norton leading to the responsibility for inquests being under the civilian jurisdiction of the Oxfordshire coroner.
Statements made by Walker in a number of high-profile cases have been quoted in the British media.
He has been particularly critical of the actions of the
The inquest into the death of British
In the case of the crash of an RAF Nimrod in Afghanistan in 2006, in which 14 servicemen were killed, Walker stated that the evidence heard at the inquest revealed that the entire Nimrod fleet had "never been airworthy from the first time it was released to service".[3]
Non-military inquests
In August 2007, Andrew Walker as deputy coroner sitting at Hornsey North London, ruled that a full inquest into the police killing of
At a pre-inquest hearing in June 2012 into the police killing of
References
- ^ BBC News accessed 10 Feb 07
- ^ "'Friendly fire' killing unlawful". BBC News. 16 March 2007. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
- ^ "Nimrod fleet 'should be grounded'". Archived from the original on 26 May 2008. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
- ^ Andrew Walker (2 August 2007). "In the matter touching the death of Azelle Rodney - Reasons for the rulings made on the 2nd August 2007" (PDF). BBC News. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ^ "IPCC defies coroner over Duggan statements". BBC News. 28 June 2012. Retrieved 18 August 2015.