Coroner warns 'more lives are at risk' after man, 27, dies
manchestereveningnews.co.ukLuke Brooks was just 27-years-old when he died from a respiratory illness, after living in a ‘freezing’, mouldy, and privately rented house.
His parents believed that the dire condition he had endured had killed him but a coroner determined that the damp or disrepair at Luke's home neither caused nor contributed to his death in November 2022.
But almost two years on from his death, a report sent in 2023 - that has only recently been published - shows the coroner who led the inquest into Luke’s death wrote to the government in the wake of her findings.
Coroner Joanne Kearsley has urged the government to act and change the absence of a private landlord register in England. Ms Kearsley told the government that the lack of a private landlord could risk more deaths, saying private landlords should be contactable.
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