Pathologist facing disciplinary hearing over dead orphan

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.

In a case which sent shockwaves across Ireland and the UK, the injuries were only found when the body was exhumed after the orphan’s twin was taken to hospital 13 days later suffering from a fractured skull.