William Danby (coroner)

William Danby was a coroner who served in the English county of West Yorkshire. He is best known for presiding over the inquest into the death of Jackie Bernard, a woman who died in Dewsbury in 1993. The inquest, held in 1995, returned a verdict of accidental death. Danby's role in the case and the subsequent scrutiny of the investigation received significant media attention. Details surrounding his career as a coroner, and the specifics of other cases he oversaw, are not widely available in readily accessible public sources.