Gross Negligence?

[agchristie]

Forgive the pun but this is extraordinary. For someone holding an important position to be so careless is dreadful.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11112043/Alice-Gross-coroner-under-investigation-after-losing-police-file-on-train.html

[jno]

people are always losing files on trains. I don't know what the matter is with them; do they just leave their brains at the station? I don't think his job is all that important, but he seems to have screwed up this investigation.

[ladybirder]

Disgraceful, even more so because it should never have left the office. I would be livid if it were my daughter.

[agchristie]

/// do they just leave their brains at the station?///

As ladybirder has rightly said, the file should never have left the office!

[sherrardk]

Surely it's not the only copy?

[Svejk]

Hardly the point, sherrard.

[agchristie]

Several important points. The coroner goes against police advice. Secondly, has no idea where the file ended up. Distress to the family, already suffering, who only find out what happened months later.

Distinctly amateurish.

[mastercraft]

What I want to know is...Why? Why did he need to take that file out of the office?

[Buenchico]

You'd be amazed what people leave on trains. During my time on the railways (as well as the usual mobile phones, laptops, crutches, bicycles, etc) I booked a confidential House Of Lords document into lost property and a Metropolitan Police officer's wallet, including his ID as a member of the anti-terrorist squad. It happens all the time!

[ladybirder]

I doubt he needed to at all mastercraft. Just sounds like someone who thought he knew best and that rules were for other people.

[agchristie]

/// Why did he need to take that file out of the office?///

Maybe the first instance of amnesia kicked in......

[agchristie]

/// It happens all the time!///

A very steep learning curve seemingly.....

[Meg]

Sainsbury's somewhere in London phoned me a few years ago to say my son had left some important documents in a trolley. Said son is in Scotland, his stuff should have been at the Saudi Embassy awaiting visa application!

[sherrardk]

The prime minster (& entourage) managed to leave a child in a pub. I'm sure the coroner will be duly admonished and if there is another copy then that can only be a good thing.

[mastercraft]

Surely it is all logged on a computer somewhere?

[agchristie]

/// The prime minster (& entourage) managed to leave a child in a pub.///

Not quite the same is it? A girl was murdered and just because there may be another copy doesn't lessen the seriousness.

[sherrardk]

I am very much aware of the seriousness of the situation but it has to be taken into context - a file was left on a train, it happens. The file being left on the train wasn't the wasn't the cause of the murder. I expect the coroner deals with many serious files on deaths, it wasn't done deliberately.

[ladybirder]

Sher, how would you feel if a copy of the coroner's report on the sexually motivated murder of your beloved 14 year old child was left on a train for anyone to see and read the awful details. Especially when the person who left it there shouldn't have had it in his possession outside of the office in the first place? I don't think it matters how many copies there are of it, I think you're missing the point.

[mastercraft]

Have to agree with ladybirder. No reason whatsoever that this should have happened.

[sherrardk]

Presumably people take 'work' home with them all of the time. I highly doubt it was intentional and to try to turn it round to how I would feel if it was my child is rather low.