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Tributes paid to long-serving Manchester coroner Leonard Gorodkin following his death aged 87

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direct to your inboxTributes have been paid to long-serving former Manchester coroner Leonard Gorodkin following his death aged 87.The father-of-three served as the city's coroner from 1974 to 2006.

The youngest of four siblings, he was raised in Miles Platting where his family owned a luggage and jewellery shop on Oldham Road, and later Prestwich.

Mr Gorodkin attended Stand Grammar School in Whitefield before studying law at Manchester University. Upon graduation he was conscripted to the Army where he served in the Intelligence Corps.Part of his training included a six-month intensive Russian course in Crail, near St Andrews in Scotland at the Joint Services School for Linguists.He became fluent in Russian and Spanish and also spoke.

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