{"id":80125,"date":"2026-07-16T12:11:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/mum-ellen-roome-wins-high-court-bid-to-reopen-sons-inquest\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:11:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:11:40","slug":"mum-ellen-roome-wins-high-court-bid-to-reopen-sons-inquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/mum-ellen-roome-wins-high-court-bid-to-reopen-sons-inquest\/","title":{"rendered":"Mum Ellen Roome wins High Court bid to reopen son&#8217;s inquest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">An inquest into the death of a 14-year-old boy, following what his mother believes was an online challenge gone wrong, is to be re-opened after its original conclusion was quashed at the High Court.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jools Sweeney died in 2022 and an inquest into his death in September of that year lasted just 23 minutes and called no live evidence before returning a narrative conclusion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The High Court has now quashed the senior coroner for Gloucestershire&#8217;s conclusion after a legal challenge from Jools&#8217; mother, Ellen Roome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roome, from Cheltenham, wept in court as two senior judges handed down their ruling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said quashing the conclusion and reopening the inquest would allow previously unavailable evidence from Jools&#8217; social media to be seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2023\/50\/contents\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Online Safety Act 2023<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a>, Ofcom can now request information from social media firms, including material a child viewed or uploaded, which was unavailable when Jools died.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c79y9qnp340o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An inquest into the death of a 14-year-old boy, following what his mother believes was an online challenge gone wrong, is to be re-opened after its original conclusion was quashed at the High Court. Jools Sweeney died in 2022 and an inquest into his death in September of that year lasted just 23 minutes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[1840,595,18237,991,3808,76,371,21244,4406,1902],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80127,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80125\/revisions\/80127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}