(Police brutality victim) Ian Tomlinson pathologist Freddy Patel guilty of misconduct and dishonesty
Source: The Guardian
Freddy Patel, the pathologist who conducted the first postmortem on Ian Tomlinson, has been found guilty by a medical tribunal of misconduct, deficient professional performance and dishonesty.
An independent fitness to practice panel said Patel had brought his profession into disrepute and had shown "a closed mindset" in April 2009 when he had attributed Tomlinson's death during the G20 protests to coronary heart disease.
Patel did not change his mind after he had seen video footage of Tomlinson being struck to the ground, despite finding fluid and blood in Tomlinson's abdominal cavity, or when three other pathologists considered Tomlinson had died as a result of bleeding from a traumatic liver injury caused by a push and fall to the ground.
He also lied about his status, allowing him to remain on the official Home Office register of forensic pathologists on which he was still listed when the City of London coroner Paul Matthews summoned him to establish Tomlinson's cause of death.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/21/freddy-patel-guilty-misconduct-tomlinson
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