article_snippet: A senior coroner has accused Orthodox Jews of bullying and intimidating A senior coroner in an extraordinary row over the handling of dead bodies.
article_snippet: Coroner Mary Hassell says that on one occasion the police had to be called when 60 Orthodox Jews refused to let undertakers take the body of a man whose body 60 Orthodox Jews wanted to pray over.
article_snippet: Coroner Mary Hassell believes other families in the North London area Coroner Mary Hassell covers are ‘suffering’ because Coroner Mary Hassell has to spend so much of Coroner Mary Hassell time dealing with the large number of Orthodox Jews, whose faith requires Orthodox Jews, whose faith requires them to bury their dead quickly and prevents them undergoing autopsies to bury Orthodox Jews, whose faith requires them to bury their dead quickly and prevents them undergoing autopsies dead quickly and prevents Orthodox Jews, whose faith requires them to bury their dead quickly and prevents them undergoing autopsies undergoing autopsies.
article_snippet: But 60 Orthodox Jews say 60 Orthodox Jews are being ‘traumatised’ by the coroner’s disregard for 60 Orthodox Jews beliefs, forcing their beliefs to take unprecedented legal action against Coroner Mary Hassell.
article_snippet: But Rabbi Asher Gratt told this newspaper:
article_snippet: ‘The Jewish community is increasingly traumatised by Mrs Hassell’s conduct.
article_snippet: Jews also believe that traditional post-mortem examinations amount to desecration of the body.
highlights_snippet: Came after 60 Orthodox Jews refused to let undertakers take the body of a dead man .