Hi, this is Jane and this is a Friday bonus edition of Offair.

Now this week I talked to Jane Coates, who was the mother of Lucy Harrison.

In January of last year, Lucy, who was a 23-year-old British woman, went to Texas to visit her father and his family.

She was shot in her father's home shortly before she was due to fly back home to the UK.

Now in the US, no charges were brought after a grand jury declined to indict her father.

The shooting was treated as an accident.

Here in the UK, a coroner reached a very different conclusion,

ruling that Lucy had been unlawfully killed and that her death was the result of reckless action.

That stark contrast has left Lucy's family searching for answers and pushing for

the case to be looked at again. Jane, thank you very much for talking to us. Can we start, first of all,

with exactly what the legal situation is right now? The inquest that was conducted in this country

did conclude that Lucy had been unlawfully killed.

Now, what does that finding mean to you as a family?

I think when we finally, you know, after a year and a month of, you know, since Lucy's death, when we finally heard that

outcome, it was a relief in terms of Lucy's truth was finally out because for so long, you

know, we'd had to follow due process and, you know, we had to allow that to happen in America

and then, you know, working towards the inquest. So for us, yeah, Lucy's truth we felt was finally

out there, but for us, it still doesn't mean she's had justice because a coroner's court

is not a criminal court and so there can be

no real blame attached. So for us, as far as we are aware at the moment, even though it was an unlawful

killing conclusion, there's no consequences for Lucy's dad.

No, but what has been established is that clear difference between

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