Theresa May has supported calls for coroners to respect individual religious beliefs a week after a judicial review of a controversial North London coroner’s practices was granted.
Mary Hassell, the senior coroner for inner North London, angered the Jewish and Muslim communities when she announced last year that she would not prioritise cases based on religious practice.
Under the religious law of both faiths, the dead are required to be buried as quickly as possible.
Responding to Gillingham and Rainham MP Rehman Chisti during Prime Minister’s Questions in the Commons today, Mrs May said: “It is important that we take into account specific requirements of someone’s faith, especially when they’ve lost a loved one and they are grieving.”
