Monday, December 17th 2012

London Officials Launch A New Inquest Into The Death Of Amy Winehouse

On Amy Winehouse's death certificate, it says that her official cause of death is "death by misadventure," which sort of makes it sound like she died in a water raft accident with The Rescuers. But it means that there were no illegal drugs found in her system and she wasn't the victim of foul play. Amy Winehouse died of accidental alcohol poisoning....maybe. Over a year after her death, the coroner's inquest into the death of Amy Winehouse will be reheard.

The Camden New Journal says the reason is because Suzanne Greenway, the assistant deputy coroner who ran the inquiry into Amy's death, doesn't really have the qualifications needed to fill the position and all of us could probably beat her in a game of Operation. Suzanne apparently only got the job, because she was slurping on the right peen. She's married to Andrew Reid, a fellow coroner who gave her the position. They've both resigned.

Since Suzanne Greenway didn't have the experience needed to officially declare a cause of death, London officials are launching a new inquest to make sure nothing was missed. Amy Winehouse's family says that they have nothing to do with the new inquest. The new inquest will be heard on January 8, 2013.

Suzanne Greenway was totally wrong, obviously, and when the new inquest is finally heard, officials will correct Amy Winehouse's death certificate and state that her official cause of death is: BLAAAAAAAAAKE!

Posted by: Michael K


Dion flowerboy's picture

She made for a great Halloween costume and easy to put together:
Bloody ballet slippers, beehive wig, capri pants, fake tats and you're in!
I miss the Crackie of Camden updates too. Last I heard, Blaaaaaaaaaaake is back on the H.

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Submitted by justducky on Tue, 12/18/2012 - 1:18am.
Codered, I doubt they will exhume her body. They will go over the autopsy and other toxicological reports and the reports about the scene and then issue a determination. If the autopsy had been botched it would be headline news.
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yeah, it was figuratively talking. they'll probably come to a similar conclusion. something not to further humiliate her, when in truth it was probably a worse combo than Heath Ledger and all others who either mixed chemicals or OD'd. I hope nothing was purposefully omitted in the reports or disregarded for the sake of the family (they were pretty high profile, I gathered from after her death) to risk further sorrow or blame.

they were all misadventures, right?

edit: if they can bring up cremated bodies, I hope the family had the sense to disperse them over the ocean or some place that was dear to her, and be gone with the wind.

FrappenBloat's picture

Things like this are always suspicious. Always. We never truly find out the truth. Her family saying they're not behind this is pure fear. They don't want to get any blame by those that cause these things to happen. Sick world we live in.

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Submitted by parissucksliterally on Tue, 12/18/2012 - 1:41am.
Submitted by skinny fat on Mon, 12/17/2012 - 11:31pm.

amy was overrated and a junkie. however she died, it wasn't a natural death. she's forgotten already.
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obviosly she hasn't been forgotten, by the comments here.

I love her music. I think she had a great voice, and she was a talent to be remembered. Yes, she was a fucking mess of a person. But she was not overrated as a talent.
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I agree PSL, IMO Amy was rated just as she should have been, some think she's a one hit wonder but talent shouldn't be rated solely on how many hits you have necessarily. Of course it's part of the equation but let's face it there are thousands of amazing musicians that have never charted or barely charted but that doesn't negate their talent. Taylor swift has # 1 hits all over the place and Amy was 100 times the artist. Amy did have a unique wonderful voice, she was responsible for re-introducing a style of music that hadn't been enjoyed by the masses in a generation. Even while she was alive many established people in the industry sung her praises and talked about how much of a natural singer she was. Having said that her addictions turned her into a nasty scabby assed wasted out drunken junkie but before it robbed her of her respect she was rated and seen where she should have been seen in her place in the music industry and in pop culture. JMO anyway.

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Why won't they let Amy rest in peace? She looked so cute in that picture! Now SHE had talent and threw it away. It was sad to watch her just fade away, but it was her life to do what she wanted to with it.

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Submitted by justducky on Tue, 12/18/2012 - 1:27am.

It's not cost efficient to have the forensic pathologist, a M.D., do all the other leg work involved.
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I think it is absolutely imperative to have the body examined by a qualified forensic pathologist.
There is just too much at stake for under qualified people to determine accurately and conclusively as to how a person died. I just don't see how a vet has those qualifications. I suppose you can have other people do a certain amount of the leg work as you say perhaps talk to the relatives or witnesses but when it comes to the actual examination of that body I just can't see how anyone but a forensic pathologist could do that. Insurance issues are one thing I suppose but when people are charged with murder or a mother accused of killing her child you just simply have people with those qualifications or you run a risk of incorrect conclusions don't you think?

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Ok which one of you Dlisted slores is Suzanne? We have so much to talk about! ☺

You can't fuck your way to the top without letting us hear your side of the story.

LoCoJo's picture

I did not know that, Ducky. Who says you can't learn useful shit here on the D?

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And she does look good in that picture. So good that at first I thought it was a Wino look-alike.

LoCoJo, she was cremated. Actually you can test cremains for certain things if they are still available.

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Submitted by skinny fat on Mon, 12/17/2012 - 11:31pm.

amy was overrated and a junkie. however she died, it wasn't a natural death. she's forgotten already.
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obviosly she hasn't been forgotten, by the comments here.

I love her music. I think she had a great voice, and she was a talent to be remembered. Yes, she was a fucking mess of a person. But she was not overrated as a talent.

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I thought she was cremated?

Whamo, what they need are qualified death investigators. It's not cost efficient to have the forensic pathologist, a M.D., do all the other leg work involved. Once the fatality is confirmed it's the Coroner's site and they process it. Ours interviews the families, witnesses, gathers all the relevant scientific data and then signs the death certificate. My county is very fortunate that our Coroner, even though he's a veterinarian, will sit down with the families and explain the autopsy and any other reports relating to the death.

I'm guessing in this case that the Coroner missed something in one of the reports that might indicate a conclusive cause of death - that could have bearing on paying out any insurance policies.

Zorba-the-Geek's picture

It's strange to see a picture of Amy when she was still a cute, striking girl. RIP Amy.

Poopele's picture

The British dug up Oliver Cromwell after he was dead for ten years so they could cut his head off.

They are just a bunch of morbid queen worshiping freaks.

Codered, I doubt they will exhume her body. They will go over the autopsy and other toxicological reports and the reports about the scene and then issue a determination. If the autopsy had been botched it would be headline news.

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Submitted by Tigerlilly

... All I ever got slurping on the right peen is a free dinner and a ride home...

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He gave you a ride home? What a dumbass.

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Submitted by kikichanelconspiracy on Mon, 12/17/2012 - 9:57pm.
Believe it or not, in the U.S., coroners are elected officials and have a shockingly low-level of qualifications
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I watched a Frontline documentary with regard to US coroners and I was shocked beyond shocked at what I saw from that. Just as you've mentioned in some states there are NO medical qualifications required at all to be a coroner, none, zip, zero, nada. A coroners findings could mean life or death the case of an accused murderer and yet you have some of these coroners who's only qualifications are a freakin electrician or the guy that runs your local arena, literally! It was one of the most eye opening documentaries I've ever seen. I can't believe in a country like the USA there are no universal country wide qualifications needed. Some states require proper medical examiners with full and complete doctor's qualifications and then perhaps the state beside it needing none. So in one state you go free but if you are a half mile in another state it could mean the death penalty if you have an ill qualified coroner.

amy was overrated and a junkie. however she died, it wasn't a natural death. she's forgotten already.

P.T.Bull's picture

Doesn't matter, she's dead either way, and very few can be convinced it wasn't the result of chemical dependency.

CodeRed's picture

I feel bad to have brought it up, and they shouldn't be digging her out of her grave in front of the public for a second time. If she was unqualified then redo the process and inform those who it concerns, but leave it out from the public. It won't bring any comfort to anyone or bring her back.

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Rip Amy

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CodeRed's picture

I remember a video maybe a month prior to her death where she was too drunk to go on. and she had clearly severe symptoms in front of everyone such as scratching her bare arms, looking around, going to sit down (hallucinations). Then just a week before her death, she was drunk and high. In fact, it was 3 days before her untimely death, so no one can me swallow, she had been clean or trying to get clean (she'd clearly need medical intervention and not self medicate, if so) at the time of her death.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP0kfAwQ2qA

Kikichanelconspiracy, another county had a coroner who was notorious for calling every death a heart attack, even when they rolled the guy over and there was a knife sticking out of his chest.

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My guess is still that she died of the DTs. She was such a booze bag for years then she started getting clean and then up and dies, it is the logical conclusion.

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Submitted by Tigerlilly on Mon, 12/17/2012 - 10:06pm.
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lmao, I want mine to say "death by interference" ;)

OnT: They should let this be.

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Submitted by zomay on Mon, 12/17/2012 - 8:19pm.
Why does it seem like everyone is getting jobs from sexual encounters....except for me.
Dang it.

;D

lol

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Submitted by OooooNooo on Mon, 12/17/2012 - 10:00pm.
"Death by misadventure" -- got to love the British -- they even make drinking yourself to death sound so elegant and refined!
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I know! What do we 'Merican whores call it? Death by Gettin' Tanked? Hey, whores, no matter how I die if you skanks get wind of it, it SHALL HENCEFORTH be referred to as "death by misadventure' on the D, deal?????

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OooooNooo's picture

"Death by misadventure" -- got to love the British -- they even make drinking yourself to death sound so elegant and refined!

kikichanelconspiracy's picture

Believe it or not, in the U.S., coroners are elected officials and have a shockingly low-level of qualifications. They are often sheriffs, funeral home directors. What the general public doesn't understand (for the most part) is that coroners are NOT medical examiners who almost always require some kind of medical training or forensic pathologists who are medical doctors. Most M.E. and FP are licensed and certified and the same is not true of coroners. I bet this woman's qualifications aren't as thin as you'd think when compared to other coroners.

Anyway, sad about Amy, but I agree with everyone else - I'm sure it was drug/alcohol related. For what it's worth, death by misadventure (in the U.S. at least) usually means accidents, which includes accidental intoxication deaths.

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Death by Misadventure is british for death from unknown causes. A Coroner is not necessarily a medical examiner or forensic pathologist. The coroner is the death investigator. Different states/countries have different laws concerning who can be a coroner. In my state it is an elected position. In my county our Coroner is actually a veterinarian who is also the only certified death investigator in entire state. He does not do the autopsy, he will consider the results in determining the cause of death.

I don't know what certifications are required in Britian it sounds like this woman wasn't qualified to interpret the information collected from various sources. I'm sure, because it was a high profile case, that the autopsy and toxicological tests were done correctly. Here in the U.S. you have to have a certain blood alcohol level to have alcohol posioning as the cause of death. However, in my state, there is a box on the death certificate that asks if alcohol was a contributing factor to the death.

Anita Bidet's picture

her biggest hit was called "rehab." hmmm

Tigerlilly's picture

Why can't I get a cool job by slurping on the right peen? All I ever got slurping on the right peen is a free dinner and a ride home. I kinda feel gypped now.

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sensitivity's picture

Either way it's the people that gave or sold her the drugs[legal or not]!!!!PERIOD!!!!You'd think the slims of the world would feel guilty about all the deaths they cause!

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..."doesn't really have the qualifications needed to fill the position and all of us could probably beat her in a game of Operation."

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i want my def certificate to say that too!

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Let her rest.

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And I'm a tiny penny rolling up the walls inside"
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I miss Amy Winehouse posts on here. That picture gives me the sads, knowing that I'll never get a new picture of her carousing around Camden in bloody ballet slippers, or hear that voice, that when she was sober, was an absolute showstopper. Ya, I miss that troubled girl.

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RandéSleepover's picture

As long as it wasn't murder or intentional suicide, does it really matter? Was anyone on earth shocked when they heard the news?

I love that picture, so adorable. Anyway... I still get really sad when I think of her. She really was a great talent. And seemed to be a sweet and vulnerable person when she wasn't in the grips of her substance abuse. *sigh*

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CodeRed's picture

anyway, sad all around, what will it give. it's safe to assume anyone, otherwise healthy, who drops dead at 27 with substance abuse problems, did not go naturally. RIP.

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Submitted by Hekki on Mon, 12/17/2012 - 8:05pm.
I'll always remember Amy riding horses and playing with little black kids on the beach in the Caribbean.
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She was probably the happiest during her time at the Caribbean. I was so sad when I heard the news she had passed. We are the same age and it was such a shock. May she RIP.

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zomay's picture

Why does it seem like everyone is getting jobs from sexual encounters....except for me.
Dang it.

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Awwww she looks cute in that pic.
RIP Amy, you big ole mess :)

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i just started to listen to her again.

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CodeRed's picture

"death by misadventure,"
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is this what they call it now? how politically correct of them! This only means suicide or murder are ruled out.

misslainey's picture

Really did not want to laugh, but the BLAAAAKE comment got me. I never heard of 'death by misadventure'. Sounds lie Weekend at Bernie's.

CodeRed's picture

in my non professional opinion, it was a mix of alcohol and prescription or non prescription drugs. maybe alcohol withdrawal but with some kind of meds (usually the heart accelerates really fast during withdrawals and most meds only increase the heart rate, which is super dangerous). and after years of abuse, her heart must have been one quick beat away from an attack.

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I'll always remember Amy riding horses and playing with little black kids on the beach in the Caribbean.