FAMILY concerns after pictures were taken and shared of a teenager’s body after he was hit by a train will not be discussed during the teen’s inquest.

Lewis Williams sadly passed away at the age of 18 on June 21 last year at Slough Train Station following issues with his mental health.

Ex-British Transport Police (BTP) employee Joshua Tilt admitted a misconduct charge after using his personal mobile phone to take a picture of Lewis’s body and sharing it with 12 people on a WhatsApp group message.

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Tilt, of Lye Close Lane, Birmingham, was jailed for two years and two months at Birmingham Crown Court on November 4, 2022.

However, Lewis’s family still have concerns about the incident, including the lack of reassurance from BTP that an incident like this will not occur again.

These concerns were raised at an inquest into Lewis’s death which commenced at Berkshire’s Coroners Court on Wednesday (July 19).

However, a legal representative for BTP said that these concerns would need to be addressed during a separate meeting.

Senior coroner Heidi Connor told the inquest that she had urged BTP to to address the ‘WhatsApp issue’ during the inquest so she could consider a Regulation 28 Report, a report which can issued by a coroner to an individual, organisation, local authority or a government department when a coroner believes that action should be taken to prevent further deaths.

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She said: “I explained the reasons why I thought that the evidence should be heard during this inquest. One, so the family did not have to have a separate meeting to be reassured this wouldn’t happened again.

“And second, one of the recipients of the photograph was made ill by it.”

However, a legal representative of BTP, Mr Clements, said the force’s position had not changed.

“No disrespect whatsoever is meant or intended towards Lewis’s family or towards you,” he said. “What you have described as the ‘WhatsApp issue’ is an aftermath issue and could not possibly fall in the scope of Regulation 28.

“The offer of a meeting [with Lewis’s family] remains an open invitation. It’s entirely a matter for them.

“The matter BTP have taken is one of pure law. I’m not sure BTP could have changed or consented to the evidence being heard in this inquest.”

Mrs Connor said she could not ‘compel’ BTP to take a different view but added that sometimes we should ‘step away from technical points and think a little bit like human beings’.

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She concluded: “If you did this job maybe you would understand how tragically high suicide cases are. Even if a battle can be won, we have to think if it was right to fight it to begin with.”

The inquest, which is expected to conclude on Thursday (July 20), continues.