Has Western Australia’s coroner published any updates or findings in the Virginia Giuffre case since November 2025?

Checked on January 27, 2026
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Executive summary

No public coroner’s findings or formal updates from Western Australia’s State Coroner in the Virginia Giuffre matter have been reported in the materials provided since November 2025; contemporary reporting from November 26–28, 2025 states that major crime detectives were preparing a report for the coroner and that the coroner was reviewing that police report, but the Coroner’s Court had not published any determination or timetable for delivery of findings [1] [2] [3] [4] [5].

1. Coroner’s role described — review underway but no published finding

Multiple news outlets in late November 2025 reported that Western Australia police said major-crime detectives were preparing a report to be supplied to the coroner, and that the coroner was reviewing that police report — language that indicates the coroner’s involvement but does not equate to the release of a formal finding or inquest result [1] [2] [3] [4]. The Coroner’s Court maintains that inquest findings are made available on the date of delivery or later by written request, which underscores that absence of a public posting in the available records likely means no finding had yet been handed down as of those reports [5].

2. Media coverage focuses on estate and civil litigation, not coroner determinations

Contemporaneous coverage in The Guardian, Newsweek and other outlets concentrated on estate disputes, the absence of a valid will, and civil suits that can move forward after an interim administrator was appointed — each story repeated that the coroner continued to review police material but none cited a coroner’s determination having been published [1] [2] [3] [6]. That editorial focus creates a practical gap in public visibility: legal maneuvering over the estate was advancing in public court filings while the coronial process — inherently evidentiary and sometimes slower — was described as ongoing [3] [6].

3. Authorities’ public statements framed the death as not suspicious pending coronial process

Police statements reported in May and reiterated in November stated the death was not being treated as suspicious and that "early indications" or police conclusions pointed that way, while also noting investigators were preparing material for the coroner, who would make the formal determination in due course [7] [4] [1]. Those public remarks are consistent with standard practice but are not replacements for a coroner’s formal finding, a distinction emphasised by Giuffre’s lawyer and family members in media interviews [7].

4. Competing narratives and the information vacuum

The absence of an announced finding allowed competing narratives to circulate: family members and some acquaintances publicly questioned aspects of the circumstances, while defenders of the initial determinations urged patience for the coroner’s technical review [8] [7]. Reporting does not provide evidence that the coroner has sided with any extrajudicial claim; what the record shows is a procedural pause — police preparing a report and the coroner reviewing it — rather than a published coronial conclusion [1] [3] [5].

5. What the official sources show and what they do not

Official Coroner’s Court guidance signals that findings are formally released on delivery and are then accessible; the court’s inquest pages and lists exist for that purpose, but the provided snapshots do not show any new finding in this case as of the late-November 2025 reporting referenced here [5] [9]. If the coroner subsequently delivered a finding after the dates covered by these articles, that action is not reflected in the supplied sources — therefore no confirmed post-November-2025 coroner finding can be asserted from this material [5].

6. Bottom line and reporting limitations

Based on the documents and news reports provided, Western Australia’s coroner had not published any updates or findings in the Virginia Giuffre case beyond the status that detectives were preparing a report and the coroner was reviewing it, as reported in late November 2025; the materials do not include any text of a coronial finding or an announced determination delivered after those reports, and absence of such a document in these sources means this analysis cannot confirm any later coroner update [1] [2] [3] [5].

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