New series of Cause of Death on Channel 5

Lancashire Post

A Lancashire coroner and his team return to Channel 5 tonight for a new series of the critically-acclaimed ‘Cause of Death’.  The first episode of the new series airs at 9pm tonight as Senior Coroner Dr James Adeley investigates the mysterious and tragic death of Jake - a young man in his twenties who is found dead at home after a night out.  Dr Adeley and his team work with Lancashire Police and Lancashire Hospitals to determine whether anything suspicious is at play, as they aim to provide his family with some much-needed answers.

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00:00There are countless factors that can lead to your death.

00:05As senior coroner, I deal with nearly four and a half thousand fatalities a year.

00:12The coroner can make any enquiries necessary to find a cause of death.

00:18The police act on behalf of the coroner.

00:20If the coroner asks, then we do it.

00:23With unprecedented access, we follow the coroner's full investigation.

00:29Somebody somewhere will want to know that this person's died.

00:32We're taking pieces of the jigsaw to formulate a cause of death.

00:36From the moment of arrival in the mortuary,

00:39to the final conclusion of the inquest.

00:43All rise.

00:45I'm sorry that you're attending court under these circumstances,

00:48and I appreciate that the evidence that you'll hear today may be distressing.

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