Obituary: William Worcester Briggs
William Worcester Briggs 1930 - 2021 BRUNSWICK - A few weeks after Bill and his wife, Jean, celebrated their 68th wedding .
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William Worcester Briggs
William Worcester Briggs 1930 – 2021 BRUNSWICK – A few weeks after Bill and his wife, Jean, celebrated their 68th wedding anniversary, Bill passed into the spiritual world on Feb. 25, 2021 after a period of failing health. He was happy to be at home surrounded by family. Bill was born to Horace and Margaret Briggs in Washington D.C., Dec. 8, 1930. He grew up in Newtonville, Mass, attending local schools, graduating from High Mowing, a Waldorf high school, in Wilton, N.H. He attended Paul Smith College in New York State, then transferred to University of Maine Orono, studying forestry at both colleges. When his family moved to Fryeburg, he met Jean Webster. Two years later they married and moved to Chester, Vt. where Bill was employed by The National Survey, a cartographic firm making mili
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image captionLeon Briggs died in hospital after being restrained and detained at Luton police station
A man who was restrained by police died from amphetamine intoxication with prone restraint and prolonged struggling , an inquest has heard.
Leon Briggs, 39, died in November 2013 after being detained under the Mental Health Act at Luton police station.
Senior Coroner Emma Whitting gave the results of a post-mortem examination on the first day of Mr Briggs inquest.
Ms Whitting said his family should not have had to have waited seven years to find out how he died. No family should have to wait the length of time Leon Briggs family has done to learn how he died, the senior coroner for Bedfordshire said.
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The family of a man who died after being restrained by police in Luton will never be able to get over his death, an inquest has been told.
The inquest into the death of Leon Briggs, a 39-year-old father of two from a mixed ethnic background, opened on Wednesday before the senior coroner for Bedfordshire and Luton, Emma Whitting, seven years after he died.
Leon Briggs’ mother sought help for him from various mental health services who said that not much could be done unless he voluntarily agreed to get help. Photograph: sbna/South Beds News Agency