The Dr Freddie Patel Sentencing is In.

Dr Freddie Patel is the pathologist whose flawed autopsy report helped shield PC Simon Hardwood from manslaughter charges relating to the death of Mr Ian Tomlinson at the anti-G20 protests in London in 2009. In 1999 Dr Patel's flawed autopsy report helped shield police officers from prosecution over the death of Mr Roger Silvestre. In 2006 his flawed autopsy report help shield a north London psychiatric hospital from prosecution over the death of Mrs Sandra Allen.

However the sentence handed down today (31/3/11) by the General Medical Council (GMC) relate to Dr Patel's role in the murder of Ms Sally White in a case that became known as the Camden Ripper case. By ignoring significant head injuries, abdominal injuries and bite marks to intimate parts of Ms White's body Dr Patel ruled that the death was the result of natural causes. As a direct result of this flawed autopsy a murder investigation was never opened and Ms White's killer, Anthony Hardy was shielded from prosecution for long enough to go on to murder two further women.

After being found guilty on March 17th the GMC today passed sentence on Dr Patel. For committing 27 offences of professional misconduct which contributed to the deaths of two people Dr Patel has been suspended for just four months.

Meanwhile the Coroner's inquest into the death of Ian Tomlinson is continuing. On Tuesday (29/3/11) the jury where shown videos which tracked the movements of PC Simon Hardwood on the day of the protests. In one video PC Hardwood is shown punching a BBC cameraman to the ground. In another he is shown smashing another protester head into a brick wall. The videos are so incriminating that before they were shown the Coroner was forced to instruct the jury to remember that PC Hardwood was not on trial for the killing. That suggests that the jury won't even be given the option of returning a verdict of unlawful killing in the case.

I suppose that does rather raise the question of why not but does answer the question of why some of the real psychopaths in the Libyan government are suddenly deciding that they'd feel more at home in Britain.