Dilemmas, rape and death: an introduction to forensic medicine for students and trainees, session 1&2

Frances is Assistant Coroner for Hertfordshire and sits on the RCPath Medical Examiners Committee. She is a past president of the RSM Section of Clinical Forensic and Legal Medicine and is a founder member of the Expert Witness Institute and a Founder Member and Fellow of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. She gave evidence at the Shipman Inquiry.  She is senior partner in her general practice and sits on Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners and the General Practice Committee of the BMA.

Dr Meng Aw-Yong has a portfolio career in Emergency and Forensic Medicine and prehospital care. He has been a Forensic Medical Examiner since 1996 and Medical Director (2011) of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). He was previously a panel member of the Independent Advisory Panel of Deaths in Custody (Harris Review on suicide in prisons) past president of the British Academy of Forensic Science and the Clinical Forensic & Legal Medicine section of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Bernadette Butler, (‘Dr B’) graduated from St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School, sometime in the last century. Her postgraduate career began in Obstetrics & Gynaecology, but family commitments led to working part-time. She began her career in forensic medicine, 20 years ago, at the first Haven, in Camberwell, now one of 3 Havens: the SARCs for London.  She has an interest in education and training, hence her role as the CETL.  Her roles within the Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine include: - Academic Dean, 2016-2019 - Examiner for LFFLM (SOM) and MFFLM (SOM) - Member of the forensic science subcommittee, (FSSC)  She has also held roles as the Clinical Director of Hope House, the Gloucestershire SARC and as an Assistant deputy Coroner for Surrey.  Away from her clinical roles, she sits as a Lay Magistrate (Justice of the Peace, JP) in Surrey. She has a particular interest in and fondness for Great Danes (dogs), of which she has owned nine over about 33 years.