Dr Richard Shepherd

Shepherd is a forensic pathologist who has carried out around twenty-three thousand autopsies and worked on the Hungerford shootings, the Bali bombings, the 7 July London attacks, the Marchioness disaster and the inquiry into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Unnatural Causes explains how a body is read and what the reading costs, and its second half concerns the post-traumatic stress disorder he was eventually diagnosed with, after decades of treating it as unprofessional to be affected. He is careful about the line between what a body can prove and what a courtroom wants it to.