Back on April 8th, I wrote this post titled “Man dies at G20 Protest – Bobbies fail to mention their own brutality“. At that point, it was purported that Ian Tomlinson died of a heart attack. A second autopy has shown he died of internal bleeding. Manslaughter charges are pending.
The tale of two pathologists is described in this Guardian article:
Dr Nathaniel Cary
Cary, who performed the second postmortem and concluded that Ian Tomlinson died of abdominal haemorrhage, is one of the country’s top pathologists. He has garnered fame for conducting follow-up autopsies that show inadequacies in tests originally carried out by others in his profession.
Dr Freddy Patel
Patel, who conducted the first postmortem and concluded that Ian Tomlinson had died of a heart attack, was once reprimanded about his professional conduct by the General Medical Council after he released medical details about Roger Sylvester, a 30-year-old black man who died in police custody.
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