Which begs the question as to why was Freddie Patel allowed to be, or designated the forensic pathologist in the case ?
... from Sept 2010....
Dr Mohammed Freddie Patel was found guilty of serious misconduct, irresponsible behaviour and brining the profession into disrepute in three other investigations into suspicious deaths.
In its ruling today, the GMC said it had to maintain public confidence in the profession, and Dr Patel had made no expression of regret in any of the case where his performance was deemed deficient.
The GMC also decided that the pathologist should be barred from carrying out any post mortems in cases of suspicious deaths and be prevented from acting for the defence in homicide cases.
..... so effectively, you could kill someone, get a complacent and irresponsibile, unprofessional pathologist to do the investigation, get him to report the death as natural causes (while disposing of all the samples so no other pathologist can examine them), and get away with it !
