Police fail to spot man had been murdered until undertakers find knife in back
A coroner criticised bungling police after they failed to spot a man had been murdered — until undertakers discovered a knife sticking out of his back, an inquest has heard. Antoine Denis, 66, was found slumped on his back in the bedroom of his flat in Chatham, Kent, in January this year. Detectives at the scene pronounced father-of-four Antoine dead but found nothing that suggested a crime had been committed. It was only when undertakers arrived to remove the body that they found blood and a 12cm (4.7in) knife stuck up to its hilt in Antoine’s back... Swns