‘They can be scared or dead’: GP’s warning to accused mushroom poisoner
Two GPs who treated accused mushroom poisoner Erin Patterson after she dished up a fatal lunch of beef Wellington have given evidence in her murder…
Tag: Criminal court
Surgeon stabbed fellow doctor to stop him testifying at his disciplinary hearing: UK
A plastic surgeon who cycled through snow to stab a colleague set to testify against him in a disciplinary hearing has been found guilty of…
Why are we so quick to criticise other doctors when things go wrong?
Why are we so ready to criticise colleagues? We’re encouraged to develop empathy for our patients. Why can’t we be empathetic towards each other? ×…
Lucy Letby: Lawyers attack top doctors’ expert report declaring no medical evidence babies were murdered
An international medical expert panel’s finding that there was no medical evidence to show Lucy Letby murdered neonates under her care has been challenged by…
Jail sentence reduced for woman who poisoned GPs with mushroom dish laced with antipsychotic
A woman who poisoned two GPs and their child by adding an antipsychotic to a mushroom dish at a regular family dinner has had her…
The truth about violent mental health patients that no-one wants to hear
Of late we have been reading more and more about violent crime linked to alleged failings of the mental health system, but little about the…
Lucy Letby case: Relying on expert doctors in criminal medical cases can lead to injustice
The Lucy Letby case is the latest in a number of UK criminal medical cases that, beyond the rights and wrongs of each verdict, raises…
Miscarriage of justice? The clinical reasons why leading doctors say Lucy Letby did not murder babies
The media in the UK is awash with headlines about an international panel of medical experts that has declared there is no medical evidence showing…
‘Medicine is witchcraft’: Parents who believed God would cure daughter’s diabetes found guilty of manslaughter
All 14 members of a fringe religious group have been found guilty of the manslaughter of an eight-year-old who died after her insulin was withheld.…
US specialist jailed for 190 years after ‘surreptitiously’ injecting IV saline bags with bupivacaine
An anaesthetist has been given a 190-year prison sentence after injecting bupivacaine, adrenaline and other drugs to IV saline bags, resulting in cardiac emergencies and…
