CPAC: Who will Republicans support in presidential race? He earned an engineer's degree from Imperial College London and subsequently became the manager of a large company. The investigation has concluded and the matter has been subsequently classified as a No Crime.. by CHARLOTTE CHAMBERS. Design by. Design by. The General Medical Council finds Dr Freddy Patel guilty of incompetence over his findings surrounding his post-mortem on the Camden Ripper Anthony Hardys first victim, Sally White. Hardy would have been locked up. Dr Freddy Patel, 63, was found guilty of misconduct and professional deficiency by an independent panel following a fitness-to-practise hearing at the General Medical Council in Euston. A former Home Office pathologist, criticised for his postmortem examination into the death of newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protest in 2009, has had his earlier work on a murder victim condemned by a General Medical Council disciplinary panel. Ms White died in January 2002, nearly a year before Ms Valad and Ms MacClennan were discovered dead and dismembered. Instead of a full statement detailing the curious circumstances in which Ms Whites body was found, police handed over what amounted to basic details for the sole intention of getting Ms Whites body released. But at his trial almost two years later, Hardy confesses to killing Sally. THERE is a touch of An Inspector Calls about the dark tragedies which unfolded on the College Place estate nearly a decade ago. He spent 13 months in custody and endured more than a decade of speculation that he was guilty. The panel said it did not want to speculate on what might have happened if Dr Chan had been briefed differently but its report added: The effect of the police statement was to close off any further inquiry by the coroner It conveyed a misleading and unduly reassuring impression about the circumstances., The Metropolitan Police did answer this criticism, insisting the detectives involved were never asked to attend the inquest, although it conceded: Regrettably, for an unascertainable reason, the letter sent to the coroner for the purposes of releasing Sally Whites body was tendered in evidence and the wider concerns of the investigative team were not fully brought before the coroner.. [16][18] Possible links between Hardy and the Parker case were noted in the press as soon as he was apprehended in January 2003, with detectives saying that "he is a suspect for the unsolved murders of any women whose bodies have been cut up and dumped". It did not mention the clothing that had apparently been cut from Sally Whites body when she was dead. A detective sergeant attached to the serious crime group wrote simply: Police have conducted an investigation and, although it is obvious that Mr Hardy is in need of psychiatric help, there is no evidence to suggest he was responsible for the death of Sally White. The investigation led to Hardy, who was arrested a week later. Patel decided White, a 31-year-old sex worker, had died of natural causes despite blood staining on her clothing, her bedding and on a wall in a locked room in Hardy's north London flat. Jan 2002 Police are called in to investigate an attack at Hardys neighbour flat. Freddy Patel, who was based at St Pancras Coroner's Court, was found guilty of misconduct and dishonesty in his examination of the newspaper vendor. Copyright 2023 Hardy marries his university sweetheart, Judith Dwight in 1972 and has four children. With effect from Friday, September 3 2010 Dr Patel is no longer instructed, requested or directed to perform autopsies under The Coroners Act 1988 by HM Coroner for The Inner North District of Greater London (Camden, Hackney, Islington and Tower Hamlets).. Dr Patel acknowledged at the hearing that the injuries were clearly visible, as they were described by a second pathologist, but said they had been enhanced by embalming fluid to show up on the second opinion. In the room the police found the naked dead body of a woman lying on a bed with cuts and bruises to her head. Detective Chief Inspector Ken Bell, Metropolitan Police BBC News Online, 25 November 2003With the discovery of a female torso in his Camden flat, the hunt is on to locate and arrest the prime suspect, 51-year-old drifter, Anthony Hardy. [16], In 2013, high-profile criminologist David Wilson released a documentary on Hardy as part of his Killers Behind Bars: The Untold Story series, in which he examined claims Hardy could be linked to the murders of London sex workers Sharon Hoare in Fulham in 1991 and Christine McGovern in Walthamstow in 1995.[24]. Dr Freddy Patel, who has been criticised for his part in the investigation into the death of Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protests, has been facing a General Medical Council hearing over his examinations of 31-year-old prostitute Sally White. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. A detective sergeant attached to the serious crime group wrote simply: Police have conducted an investigation and, although it is obvious that Mr Hardy is in need of psychiatric help, there is no evidence to suggest he was responsible for the death of Sally White. A number of the other allegations however, were found to be not proved. Without the public inquiry Mrs Valad called for, there is no way of knowing what was running through the police officers minds. Hardy is also mentioned, and his flat pointed out, in the music video "Guided tour of Camden" by Charlie Sloth. The General Medical Council upheld allegations relating to the case of Sally White, a woman suffering from drug addiction and working as prostitute who was killed by Hardy at his Camden Town council flat in January 2002. As Hardy pleaded guilty, there was no trial and no fresh coroners inquests were ever conducted. Its the same gut feeling I had because I spoke to another member of the team when we were talking in the office about it and I always had my concerns that he had done it. Just before he was about to go on trial, the killer, known as the Camden Ripper, confessed at the Old Bailey to murdering Ms White in his . During an interview another health worker said: I remember a number of reactions. The whole team had a gut feeling he had done it., While they held these fears, there was no official outlet or investigation for them to share them with. Twenty-nine allegations against Dr Patel were being investigated by the GMC at the hearing including the validity of one concerning a CV entry. Not suspicious. When an application for a public inquiry reached the Royal Courts of Justice in 2005, brought in the name of Liz Valads daughter, Soraya, Mr Justice Bennett ruled that the government had met its obligations by holding the health authoritys independent review into the mental healthcare received by Hardy. THE pathologist who ruled one of the victims of Camden Ripper Anthony Hardy had died of natural causes has been suspended for four months. Jackie Valad believes her daughter Elizabeth would still be alive if Patel had not concluded in his initial report that White had died of natural causes, because a police investigation would have been launched. The GMC ruled that Patel made a string of errors and failed to fully consider the circumstances of White's death. In that play, now anA-level standard text for English literature students, JB Priestley created a cast who each in turn shift uneasily when questioned over the death of a desperate factory girl. An NPIA spokesman said rules governing pathologists have been tightened following Dr Patels case. He replies the same to all the questions the police put to him.He is eventually charged with the murders of both Elizabeth and Bridgette as well as Sally White, the woman whose death had originally been put down to natural causes. In August 2012, Freddy Patel is struck off the medical register by the General Medical Council after he is found to be guilty of misconduct by a tribunal. Patel accepted that he did not adequately report on other possible causes of the marks of injury or their possible significance. In one of the cases, the panel heard how he had failed to spot signs of abuse on five-year-old Islington girl, Annastacia Williams, whose parents were later jailed for child cruelty. The panel found Patel failed to consider key evidence including the blood staining on her clothing and bedding or fully to consider that her body had been found in a locked room in the flat of a recently-arrested man, or another sex worker's statement that Hardy had nearly suffocated her. For example, the coroners inquest into Ms Whites death, a short hearing in front of a handful of people, was considered inadequate. In a move that would leave Hardy free to kill repeatedly, it was decided that there was insufficient evidence to charge him at the time. It is at this stage in the investigation that police re-examine the suspicious death of Sally White. It is what the statement omitted to say that causes us concern. It was also found that he had not considered a range of other potential raesons for death, including asphyxia. At 11am, at St Pancras Mortuary, an autopsy by Dr Freddy Patel confirmed their worst fears; the legs were human, female, recently dismembered and more than likely belonged to more than one woman. It also found he did not give adequate consideration to other modes of death, including asphyxia. He was suspended from carrying out routine post mortems for three months. Ms White died in January 2002, nearly a year before Ms Valad and Ms MacClennan were discovered dead and dismembered. But there are nagging what ifs and lasting concerns over whether those two women, Liz Valad, 29, and Bridgette MacClennan, 34, whose heads and hands were never found, might still be alive today if Hardy had been trapped earlier. "Your conclusions in the postmortem reports were made without any adequate consideration of other possible modes of death, including asphyxia, and that this was irresponsible; not of the standard expected of a competent forensic pathologist when undertaking and reporting on special or forensic postmortem examination; and liable to bring the medical profession into disrepute.". The film was directed by Robert Murray and written and produced by Will Hanrahan. Without the public inquiry Mrs Valad called for, there is no way of knowing what was running through the police officers minds. It must have been a puzzling conclusion to at least 10, 20, maybe 30 or more people who had either been at the crime scene or dealt with Hardy afterwards, people with close knowledge of the case. Ultimately, the health authorities were cleared of any wrongdoing. General Medical Council says pathologist, later criticised for his postmortem of newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson, acted irresponsibly when examining first victim of 'Camden Ripper', Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Dr Freddy Patel, who carried out the first, crucial examination of Ian Tomlinson, concluded that he died of a heart attack. Earlier this month, the disciplinary panel found Patel's 2002 reports on the death of Sally White the first victim of the "Camden ripper" Anthony Hardy were "irresponsible, not of the standard expected of a competent forensic pathologist and liable to bring the medical profession into disrepute". Crime Files Back to anthony hardy camden ripper Timeline 1951 Hardy is born in Staffordshire1972 He marries Judith Dwight and has four children. Mr Justice Keith, sitting in London, said: "This is one of those exceptionally rare cases in which life should mean life. Richard Horwell, Prosecutor at Hardys murder trial Martin Beckford, Court News UK Anthony Hardy starts 2003 with allegations of assaults and rapes against him; he ends the year as a triple murderer who faces ending his days in prison. She added in that interview with the Nottingham Evening Post that she felt the case had been subject to a whitewash. Hints and tips I havent got them, so therefore they would have been shredded. [4] He lived in various hostels in London, picking up convictions for theft[6] and being drunk and disorderly. It emerged that he had made errors in a number of cases, including that of Sally White. I never got over it. In 2010, Mr Justice Keith rules that Hardy will join an elite group of the countrys most dangerous criminals for whom life means life. He was arrested in 1998 when a prostitute accused him of raping her, but the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence. I cant give you a date and a time and a place. She was such a beautiful girl. It also found not proved allegations he did not consider the nature and extent of her external and internal injuries, or her personal history, or a statement from a witness before the second and third post mortem reports. Two of his victims, who Hardy later said died during bondage sex, were photographed in demonic masks after death and then callously mutilated, their torn limbs found tossed in black bin bags over Christmas 2002. I could rule out suffocation and strangulation, and if that was the method Id like to know.. Dr Chan oversaw hundreds of inquests at St Pancras, often lamenting the scourge of drug use in Camden and Islington. I never got over it. But at his trial in 2003, Hardy pleaded guilty to murdering her. Updated 23:46, 31 MAR 2011. Ripper case pathologist Dr Freddy Patel suspended THE pathologist who ruled one of the victims of "Camden Ripper" Anthony Hardy had died of natural causes has been suspended for four months. THERE is a touch of An Inspector Calls about the dark tragedies which unfolded on the College Place estate nearly a decade ago. Police film inside Hardys squalid flat revealing the contents and a grim insight into Hardy and his thirst for violence and sex: pornographic films, satanic dubbings on the walls, tools of torture and blood stains. Dr Chan oversaw hundreds of inquests at St Pancras, often lamenting the scourge of drug use in Camden and Islington. It has taken nine years and other high-profile cases, notably the death of newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests, which Dr Patel worked on, for the General Medical Council to reach this stage in its investigation into Dr Patels conclusions. After the police specifically asked Patel to assess the possibility of asphyxia, the doctor admitted he did not adequately comment on the circumstances when the "classic signs of asphyxia" are not present. Dr Freddy Patel, 63, was found guilty of misconduct and professional deficiency by an independent panel following a fitness-to-practise hearing at the General Medical Council in Euston. Between April and November 2002, Hardy spent time in psychiatric units at several hospitals, and within six weeks of being released he murdered Elizabeth Valad and Bridgette MacClennan. Drag blood mark show how Hardys victims were moved from the bathroom to the living room; called the dismemberment room by police. He went on the run for three days before being arrested at Great Ormond Street Hospital where he went for medication for diabetes. He was told he had brought the profession. You dont need too many powers of deduction to work out he is the man identified only as Dr Y. During an interview another health worker said: I remember a number of reactions. . [20] The other man was stocky and wearing dark clothing. As Ms Valads mother Jackie told her local newspaper in Nottingham, last year: It ruined my life. Evidence was to come closer to home, when police find a square shaped package covered in black bin bags in Hardys flat. Hardy went on to kill two more women. During the discussion over whether the case should be heard, Dr Patel described for the first time how he learned Hardy had pleaded guilty to Ms Whites murder. Hardy, despite being at the scene when the body was discovered in his flat, was not asked to give evidence. When will the Beast from the East be at YOUR door? Having been on the New Journal for four months, Iwas sitting in court that day as a cub reporter still getting used to the inquest system that most people have no knowledge of unless a relative or friend dies in unusual circumstances. They had been absent in the first post mortem, he said. Dr Patel had told an earlier inquest that she had died from heart problems. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of Terms and Conditions. The decision follows his suspension in September last year for misconduct relating to two other postmortems. [18][19] The lower half of Parker's body was never found. Although Anthony was found. In 1982, Hardy is arrested for a serious attack against his wife. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA, suspended from the register for three months last September. "Hardy claimed he was a 'gregarious, intelligent, well- trusted man' until he was made redundant and divorced in the 1980s" Martin Beckford, Court News UK John Anthony Hardy is born in 1951 in the small town of Burton- upon-Trent in Staffordshire. Hardy flees from the scene of his crimes and having established that he has no car, is diabetic and needs regular medication, the police target local hospitals to trap their suspect.Within days this pays off. Patel concluded she had died from a heart attack during consensual sex. The GMC was told at the start of the hearing in July its bid to introduce an additional case had been rejected on legal grounds, after it emerged that it had taken almost eight years to inform Dr Patel it was investigating a case. Annastacias body later had to be exhumed. The Version table provides details related to the release that this issue/RFE will be addressed. "Anthony John Hardy has exhibited a degree of depravity in the way he committed these appalling crimes that I personally have never ever come across before." This was not the first time that Hardy had used the level of sadistic violence he that had employed in the killing and dismemberment of Elizabeth and Bridgette. They divorce in 1986. The director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, has said failures by Patel undermined the chances of successfully prosecuting the officer responsible. Patel was accused of irresponsible conduct and a further charge of dishonesty over a CV entry. Camden Ripper Anthony Hardy was criminally active between the years of December 2000 to December 2002 - at least. It was all too suspicious for some. All of it would have been packaged up in a natural causes file. Do not sell or share my personal information. Instead of a full statement detailing the curious circumstances in which Ms Whites body was found, police handed over what amounted to basic details for the sole intention of getting Ms Whites body released. In a Channel 4 documentary, The Hunt for the Camden Ripper, made after Hardys conviction, Detective Inspector Alan Bostock is asked why the Sally White investigation was brought to a close. Hardy was the subject of an episode of Evil Up Close on the Crime and Investigation Network, focusing on the 2010 decision to keep Hardy in prison for the rest of his life. Patel was suspended for three months in September last year after a panel found he had carried out three "irresponsible" postmortems, two of which amounted to misconduct. At a full public inquiry, Dr Patel would not have been the only one answering questions, such as those he faced during his GMC case. A fight took place as he resisted arrest, during the course of which a police officer was knocked unconscious and another officer was stabbed through the hand and had his eye dislocated from its socket. Inside the bags is a female torso. March 2002 Hardy is sent to St Lukes psychiatric hospital in north London after a dispute with a neighbour. The coroner had no other way of knowing these things. Dr Freddy Patel is accused of . He was suspended from carrying out routine post mortems for three months. G20 pathologist Freddy Patel suspended Forensic examiner not allowed to practise for at least four months after botched postmortem delayed murder investigation Pathologist Freddy Patel has. Hardy, despite a history of mental illness, a personality disorder and schizophrenia, was said to have been bad, not mad at the time of his killings. Police officers who became serial killers, Take part in our survey to win an Amazon Fire HD 8 and Amazon Echo Dot. The investigation has concluded and the matter has been subsequently classified as a No Crime.. Detectives shut down a murder investigation after Dr Freddy Patel ruled Sally White, a woman who worked as a prostitute, had died from heart failure - and not as the result of being attacked by Hardy. Fixed: Release in which this issue/RFE has been fixed.The release containing this fix may be available for download as an Early Access Release or a General Availability Release. So to that extent there isnt a case for us to investigate. . So to that extent there isnt a case for us to investigate. Dr Patel had told an earlier inquest that she had died from heart problems. Later in the same documentary, images of the crime scene, including a blurred photo of Ms Whites body are included. [22] She travelled around west London seeking clients, moving between Isleworth, Feltham, Hounslow and sometimes the West End, and on the night she disappeared she was in Hounslow. Through days of harrowing evidence, Hardy is revealed to the jury as a man who is a pornography-obsessed necrophiliac who achieves sexual gratification by posing the nude bodies of his victims after death and taking explicit photos of their naked corpses.The jury delivers a verdict of guilty to all three counts. Loose Women star Jane Moore puts her seven-bed Battersea home on the market for 4.5M three months after Are YOU a romantic comedy buff? Tiptoeing nervously around the subject, it was discussed by staff informally. [21], Parker's incomplete body had been found on 17 December 2000, 11 days after she disappeared. The killer returned to his flat and later in 2002 killed prostitutes Liz Valad and Bridgette MacClennan, chopping up their bodies and throwing them out in black bags. Charges are later dropped, 1986 The marriage breaks down and Hardy returns to London alone, 1995 Hardy is sent to a psychiatrist hospital, 1998 Hardy is arrested for an assault on a prostitute. That day he listened to a statement from Ms Whites father, who has never commented on the case beyond those words, read to the inquest by a court official. In August 2012, Freddy Patel is struck off the medical register by the General Medical Council after he is found to be guilty of misconduct by a tribunal. Elizabeth died brutally at the hands of "Camden Ripper" Anthony Hardy. Murdaugh is heckled as he leaves court, Ken Bruce finishes his 30-year tenure as host of BBC Radio 2, Ukrainian soldier takes out five tanks with Javelin missiles, Family of a 10-month-old baby filmed vaping open up, Missing hiker buried under snow forces arm out to wave to helicopter, Hershey's Canada releases HER for SHE bars featuring a trans activist, Moment teenager crashes into back of lorry after 100mph police race. He accepted that these could include cases where the victim was unconscious and did not resist. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. She was identified as Sally White, 38, a prostitute who had been living in London. Mr Justice Keith BBC News Online 25 November 2003Anthony Hardys murder trial begins at the Old Bailey in London in November 2003. richard@camdennewjournal.co.uk. The General Medical Council had pressed for him to be struck off but an independent fitness to practise panel in London determined that suspension for his misconduct and dishonesty would be "appropriate and proportionate". Charged over that offence, he was sectioned rather than jailed. The statement did not say that Mr Hardy lied when asked if he had a key to the locked room where her body was discovered, or how he reacted when the key was found in the lining of a jacket by a police officer. Despite suffering these injuries, the wounded police officer held Hardy until backup arrived and he was arrested at the scene. Further searches by the police indicate there are at least two victims. The whole team had a gut feeling he had done it., While they held these fears, there was no official outlet or investigation for them to share them with. The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA), a regulatory body for pathologists on the Home Office register, suspended Dr Patel from conducting suspicious death post mortems last year. Anthony Hardy, the Camden Ripper, as he was instantly named and which he probably enjoyed, went on the run. [8][9] In 2012, his name was erased from the medical register by the General Medical Council, meaning that he can no longer practise medicine in the United Kingdom. The council said Patel, 63, had been reluctant to consider asphyxiation in the murder case, had falsified his CV and failed to redress previous shortcomings. THE pathologist who wrongly concluded that a "Camden Ripper" victim died of natural causes has been told to report any new work he undertakes to the General Medical Council (GMC). It follows the panels investigation into three cases dating from 2003 to 2005. Now, Dr Patel's case has been resolved at the GMC, the Camden Ripper files may never be reopened again. Lawal set for Elite test after latest win, Road less travelled in Women Behind the Wheel, New Journal Enterprises 2023. The panel ruled that Dr Patel, 63, had taken an inflexible approach to his autopsy and gave only superficial consideration to the possibility Ms White had been strangled. Camden New Journal In his flat the police discovered the naked corpse of 31-year-old Sally. The only investigation that did take place unfolded behind closed doors. Dr Freddy Patel is accused of "irresponsible" conduct in connection with post-mortem examination reports in 2002 into the death of 31-year-old prostitute Sally White, the first victim of Anthony . On 30 December 2002, a homeless person scavenging in rubbish bins found the dismembered body parts of two women, wrapped in black plastic bin-liners. and although they took the very rare step of requesting a second autopsy be conducted, Dr Freddy Patel returned with the same conclusion - "heart failure". As such only a small number know what happened in the sessions organised by the North Central London Strategic Health Authority and Camden Council, beyond their published findings. It was narrated by Juliet Stevenson and directed by Olly Lambert. One community psychiatric nurse told the inquiry: With me it was just a gut feeling. Dr Patel did not record injuries, including finger grip marks and others apparently caused by a fork. It is clear detectives were concerned about what they had seen but these worries were not relayed to Dr Chan. But lawyers for the forensic examiner argued he had taken steps to improve his professional conduct, and the panel accepted that his dishonesty fell towards the "lower end" of the spectrum. There is mention of Dr Patels work in their final report, published in September 2005. Two other pathologists later concluded that the 47-year-old newspaper seller died of internal bleeding as a result of blunt force trauma, in combination with cirrhosis of the liver. At his trial in November 2003 Hardy, despite his initial lack of cooperation with the police, abruptly changed his plea to guilty to all three counts of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He shows Hardy the photo of the naked body of Sally White. What would the playwright have made of the murders of Anthony Hardy? Looking back, it is amazing to think it was all over in 15 minutes. Patel will not be allowed to practise until his case is reviewed and another panel is satisfied he has identified and remedied deficiencies, proven he has attended retraining courses, including on medical ethics, shadowed other pathologists and provided a satisfactory plan that might allow a supervised return to practise. AETNUK All Rights Reserved. She added in that interview with the Nottingham Evening Post that she felt the case had been subject to a whitewash. It follows the panel's investigation into three cases dating from 2003 to 2005. The pathologist deems the cause of death as natural causes. The deaths are in keeping with the warnings given by Hardys psychiatrist, Dr Ian Collins in 2002: Hardy is a dangerous and violent man particularly towards women and prostitutes. As the pathologist who wrongly concluded a murder victim died of natural causes is suspended, the New Journals RICHARD OSLEY looks back on the case he has followed since the inquest into Sally Whites death in 2002. Patel decided that White, a 31-year-old sex worker, had died of natural causes despite blood staining her clothing, bedding and a wall at Hardy's flat. Hardy was arrested wearing the baseball cap which was found later in the haul of obscene photographs featuring Elizabeth Valads corpse.Hardy is taken to Colindale Police station in North London. The statement did not say that Mr Hardy lied when asked if he had a key to the locked room where her body was discovered, or how he reacted when the key was found in the lining of a jacket by a police officer.

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