The Phillip Hughes inquest: necessary, legally and for the family
It would have been irregular for the coroner to have not had this inquest and, while some of the questions asked were hurtful to the cricketing community, the Hughes family's grief outweighs that discomfort
Malcolm Knox, in the Sydney Morning Herald, on why the inquest into the death of Phillip Hughes had to happen.
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The pain that has been dredged to the surface has been horrible to see, and pity abounds for the players, umpires and others who have given evidence. But too many casual observers have given this pain a greater weight than the Hughes family's grief. They should "move on". So easy for the uninvolved to say!
The wider community's sympathies rest decisively with the agonised players who have been examined; can we not also respect the all-consuming suffering that has been sitting in the courtroom in barely contained silence, and which wants the game of cricket brought to account? Is it too hard for us to understand that the inability to accept an accident as a mere stroke of fate is precisely what grief is about?
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