Not so random research question

[m31andy]

Oh help me, oh wonderful friendslist, I'm in a bit of a bind.

If a person were to be badly injured in the commission of a crime (say, for instance, joyriding in a stolen car...), would there be a police presence when the next of kin presents him/herself at the hospital? Obviously the injured party would be arrested if/when (s)he is in a fit state to be so. But in the meantime? How much of the nature of the crime would be related to the next of kin, if the joyrider was over the age of majority? Would this differ if the next of kin is not a blood relation?

Have things changed in the last twenty years? The incident I wish to write about is set in London in the early 1980s.

Thoughts? Facts? Ideas? Flames?

MTIA!

And yes, to those of you who think you know what I'm talking about. It's that fic.

Comments

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I require the hospital calling Y to tell him that X is there and can he come down and speak to the doctor. Hmm.
Hmmn - if villain is unconscious, do the police already know who the next of kin are? And if they do, and they know the villain's a villain, is he a known villain whose nok might also be villains, or at the very least cover up for him?

What if the person in the hospital who knew that Y would want to know about X (or, you know *g*) was a nurse who knew them personally? If X and Y are who I think they are, then they seem to know alot of nurses... *g* would something like that work? Then it wouldn't have to be official?