questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether murder victims are posthumously (a) drug and (b) alcohol tested as a matter of routine.
answerText: Forensic post-mortems follow the Code of Practice issued by the Home Office, the Royal College of Pathologists and the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland, which requires toxicology samples to be taken and preserved where necessary. If samples are n...
heading: Homicide: Alcoholic Drinks and Drugs