Nearly 3500 grieving families have endured “agonising” delays in the wait to find out how their loved ones died unexpectedly.A row over toxicology services involving the Crown Office has led to thousands of post-mortem reports being held up.Jen Jackson-Robertson, who is in the dark about how her 23 year old nephew Callum died, said:“The backlog isn’t just a pile of paperwork and lab samples.
These are people’s lives, and families have been badly let down by these long delays before the coronavirus crisis.”Sudden and unexplained deaths are probed by the Crown Office, which enlists a Glasgow University lab to carry out a toxicology test as part of the final report.Next of kin should find out the cause of death within twelve weeks, but a cash