Windrush death: coroner undecided over role of hostile environment

Sentina Bristol, the mother of Dexter Bristol, holds a portrait of her son. Photograph: Yui Mok/PAA coroner is reconsidering her ruling that the role of the hostile environment policy in the death of a Windrush citizen should be examined at his inquest after the Home Office challenged her decision. Mary Hassell, the senior coroner for inner north London, was sitting at a pre-inquest review hearing into the death aged 58 of Dexter Bristol, who had spent the last year of his life trying and failin