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The Star Thursday July 29 2021 12 NEWS Call for support • From page 1 Booth is among bereaved family members calling for a reduction to the years-long delays. They want more coroners, access to free legal representation and medical experts during the inquest process, as well as more support. His friend and fellow parent Corinda Taylor is still waiting after more than eight years since she lost her son Ross to suspected suicide. Said Booth: “It’s like waiting on a birthday but you don’t know what the date is. You don’t know how long you have to wait, you don’t know whether it’s next week, next month or next year.” Booth fears that the there is so much backlog in inquiries, that the coroner will make their finding on Liam’s death following a hearing “on the papers.” These are not public hearings, and family members, witnesses and other parties do not attend. Booth wanted the hearing, which happens towards the end of the inquiry, to be an inquest. Inquests are generally held in court and the coroner can hear from witnesses in person. He said this would give him the opportunity to question health authorities and personnel about what he believed was a failure in their duty of care. “I want to look them in the eye, so they can see the end result of not doing their job correctly,” Booth said. Coroner Bruce Hesketh told The Star every death reported to the coroner was different, and coroners must consider evidence from a range of sources. “While a coroner will also typically seek medical information, they may put their inquiry on hold pending the outcome of another agency’s investigation,” Hesketh said. This was the case for Liam’s death, where the Health and Geoff Disability Commission Booth is conducting an investigation. “Once the investigation is complete (in these sorts of cases), a decision can be made about whether an inquest will be held,” Hesketh said. Chief coroner Judge Deborah Marshall said a programme of work was underway to address average time frames for the completion of coroners’ inquiries. Booth welcomed the work underway and initiatives being planned. Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz Successful campaign to clean up VC family’s plot MEMORIALS to Charles Upham, New Zealand’s most decorated soldier, and Sergeant Henry Nicholas, Canterbury’s first Victoria Cross recipient, have been restored in Christchurch – thanks to an English-born Korean War veteran and a war-graverestoring charity. The Star has followed Ken Wright’s plea in recent weeks to repair Sergeant Henry Nicholas’ earthquake-damaged family plot in Bromley cemetery, before Upham’s resting place was also spruced up in Papanui. Masons conscripted by the New Zealand Remembrance Army righted the toppled Nicholas headstone; volunteers repainted the lettering and affixed ceramic poppies recognising the service of Nicholas and his two brothers in World War 1. The Lincoln-born 27-year-old was awarded the VC for an attack on a German stronghold in Belgium in December, 1917. He was killed in France on October 23, 1918, shortly before the armistice. Frederick Charles and Ernest Nicholas, who also served in the conflict before returning home. Upham, who was born in Christchurch in 1908, is one of only three people to be awarded the VC twice – for actions in Crete in 1941 and Egypt a year later. He died in 1994 and is buried with wife Molly. New Zealand Remembrance Army chief executive Simon Strombom was proud to have answered Wright’s call for assistance. “There’s hundreds of these graves in New Zealand to repair like this. With $2 million we could do all the graves across the country,” he said. “We think two out of three New Zealanders – more, potentially more – who were killed in REPAIRED: Ken Wright waged a successful campaign to clean up the graves of VC recipients Captain Charles Upham (above) and Sergeant Henry Nicholas. action have a memorial grave from World War One. “They’re a real problem because sometimes the families have ceased to exist, no one looks after them. We’ve put about 2500 poppies on memorial graves.” A re-dedication ceremony for the Nicholas plot is expected to be held by the end of August. Army volunteers also spruced up the Upham grave at St Paul’s Anglican church after being alerted by The Star. “The lettering on the plaque was faded so we gave it a refresh,” Strombom said. • Read more about Ken Wright on pages 16-17
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