Category: Deborah Archer

  • Coroner in Boothby O’Neill Inquest Issues Report to Prevent Future Deaths

    For two weeks in late July and early August, His Majesty’s Assistant Coroner Deborah Archer heard testimony regarding the death of Maeve Boothby O’Neill, a 27-year-old woman who died of malnutrition after three hospitalizations at the Royal Deven and Exeter Hospital (RDE) failed to address her severe case of ME. While Archer’s report on the…

  • A Deeper Dive into the Inquest’s “Findings and Conclusions”

    Last Friday, August 9th, assistant coroner Deborah Archer read in court her “findings and conclusions” in the inquest into the death of Maeve Boothby O’Neill, the 27-year-old woman from Exeter, UK. Three hospitalizations in the months before Maeve died in October, 2021, failed to resolve her failing nutritional status. Over the course of two weeks…