NRI pathologist suspended in UK

London, July 3: An NRI pathologist, who carried out the post-mortem of a man killed during the violent G-20 protests here in April, has been suspended from an official government register and is under two separate investigations into his professional conduct. Freddy Patel, who conducted the first post-mortem into Ian Tomlinson which found he died of a heart attack, has been removed from the home office register of accredited forensic pathologists pending an inquiry, amid concern into whether he has breached regulations. Following his suspension he is barred from undertaking any further post-mortems in "suspicious death" cases, the Guardian reported on Friday. According to the report, the Metropolitan police alerted the home office to concerns about Patel’s performance in four suspicious death cases in 2004. Patel was asked to... [read full story]                    

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