Northern Ireland’s Assistant State Pathologist is facing British government disciplinary proceedings over his failure to identify multiple fractures on the body of a 14-month-old Romanian orphan who died less than four months after being adopted and taken to live in the North in 2000, it was revealed today.

A HEALTH visitor accused of failing to properly monitor adopted twins had a smaller caseload than her colleagues.

A report into the death of a Romanian orphan who was adopted along with his twin brother by a former missionary from Portadown, Co Armagh, has recommended that police reinvestigate the child’s death.