Berkshire Coroner’s Office
Welcome to the Berkshire Coroner's Service
Coroner Service Address
Reading Town Hall
Blagrave Street
Reading, RG1 1QH
Contact Us
As our team are not always office-based, email is almost always the fastest way to contact us. Please email our general inbox using the below address, or via this website here, and the appropriate Coroner’s Officer will be in touch as soon as possible. Our telephone number is voicemail only, this voicemail is checked regularly so please leave a message with your name, your contact details, and the name of the deceased person you’re calling about, and we will get back to you.
Tel: 0118 937 2300
Email: coroner@reading.gov.uk
Practical and emotional suport for the bereaved can also be found on the Coroners Courts Support Service (CCSS) Website here. If you would like to talk to a CCSS volunteer before an Inquest their telephone helpline is available Mon – Fri 9.00 am – 6.00 pm. on 0300 111 2141
His Majesty's Coroners
Senior Coroner: Mrs Heidi J Connor
Area Coroner: Ms Hannah Godfrey
Assistant Coroners (part time): Priya Malhotra, Alison McCormick, Robert Simpson, Justine Spencer, Katy Thorne KC and Ian Wade KC
Coroner Service Staff
Coroners Team Manager: Rhiannon Charnock
Senior Coroner's Officer: Hazel Sharkey
Coroners Officers: Adrian Baldree, Shane Edwards, Georgina Fuller, Leanne Henly, Lauren Peacock, Georgia Stevens and Karolina Tyler
Secretary to Senior Coroner: Amelia Cox
Court Officers: Jemma Norris and Caitlin Walton
Inquests
Tuesday 19th May 2026
Una Ann WATERS
DOD: 2026-02-09
09:00 |
Tuesday 19th May 2026
Cyril DE SILVA
DOD: 2025-12-24
09:00 |
Tuesday 19th May 2026
Leonard Anthony ABERY
DOD: 2025-12-28
09:00 |
Tuesday 19th May 2026
Mary Julia POCOCK
DOD: 2026-04-05
09:00 |
Tuesday 19th May 2026
Juliet Louisa NOKES
DOD: 2026-02-14
09:00 |
Tuesday 19th May 2026
Eleanor BLOOMFIELD
DOD: 2025-09-24
10:00 | Reading Museum and Town Hall, Blagrave Street, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 1QH