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Inquest after 49 years

The Lord Chief Justice has ordered a new inquest into the death in 1953 of a young airman who died minutes after taking part in tests of the nerve gas sarin at the Ministry of Defence’s Porton Down Research Centre. The original verdict on the death of Ronald Maddison, misadventure, was quashed.

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