Inspector Morse star Tony Mathew had died 'unexpectedly after an operation' in 2023. The inquest into his death ended on Thursday, with Coroner Sarah Clarke revealing clinicians were "perplexed" by The Bill star's sudden death. The Inquest revealed Tony suffered an abdominal bleed, known as an intraperitoneal haemorrhage. He went in for an "uneventful" elective stoma reversal in December of 2023 at the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Kent. He started bleeding post-surgery it was