We asked the experts - and their answers will terrify you Public Service Announcement, do NOT watch these ads! 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. I never got over it. West End Extra, 40 Camden Road Camden Town London, NW1 9DR, Enquiries: He went on the run for three days before being arrested at Great Ormond Street Hospital where he went for medication for diabetes. It found his work was not of the standard expected of a competent forensic pathologist and liable to bring the medical profession into disrepute.. A PATHOLOGIST will not face a disciplinary hearing over his conclusion that one of Camden Ripper Anthony Hardys murder victims had died from natural causes. The flat was owned by Anthony Hardy - a serial killer known as the Camden Ripper - who went on to kill two more victims after police took no action against him regarding Miss White. In 2002, Dr Patel said Ms White had died from heart disease. One was, thats daft, how does the body of a woman get into somebodys flat? Then there was a relief and it was a mixture of thats all right then, he hasnt murdered somebody but hang on a minute, its not quite all right., The interviewer asked: In your own mind, putting it at its lowest, it remained a possibility that it was murder and that he had got away with it?. 2nd July 2009 The pathologist who ruled one of Camden Ripper serial killer Anthony Hardy's victims died of natural causes has been suspended by the pathologists' monitoring board following a second controversy, the New Journal can reveal. The only investigation that did take place unfolded behind closed doors. In 1999 he was disciplined for discussing a patients medical history with reporters. [22] On the night she went missing she was seen with two men described as white and with dark hair. 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. advertising@camdennewjournal.com. 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. They had been absent in the first post mortem, he said. 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. It found proved charges that Dr Patel's post mortem conclusions did not properly consider the available evidence relating to the location and position of the victim's body in a locked room in the flat of a man recently arrested by police, plus the location of her clothing. The charges are dropped due to lack of evidence. Single mother faces 170 parking fine after overstaying at McDonald's for just 14 minutes while she treated Man had sex with his wife on bollard in protest after it had been erected by neighbour to stop him parking What will the next pandemic be? Not suspicious. Isaac added that his "actions would be considered dishonest by the ordinary standards of reasonable and honest people, and that you must have realised that your actions would be regarded as dishonest". The coroner was Dr Stephen Chan, who has not given evidence to any panel, investigation or inquiry in relation to the Hardy murders. Annastacias body later had to be exhumed. Tiptoeing nervously around the subject, it was discussed by staff informally. Tiptoeing nervously around the subject, it was discussed by staff informally. In the room the police found the naked dead body of a woman lying on a bed with cuts and bruises to her head. It is what the statement omitted to say that causes us concern. Police shut down a potential murder inquiry against Hardy after Dr Patels findings. A dinner-table circle of consciences are pricked, from the mill owner who made her redundant to the haughty charity worker who turns her away when she seeks help, as the opportunities to change her life before suicide are recounted. A pathologist faces being struck off after flaws were discovered in his post-mortem of the first victim of 'Camden Ripper' Anthony Hardy. Hardys strange behaviour raises concerns about his mental health and he is diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. Dr Freddy Patel, 63, who was criticised over his part in the investigation into the death of Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protests, omitted autopsy findings which he considered not "relevant". Ultimately, the health authorities were cleared of any wrongdoing. They divorce in 1986. The family move to Australia 1982 Hardy is arrested for trying to drown his wife. 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. Drag blood mark show how Hardys victims were moved from the bathroom to the living room; called the dismemberment room by police. [5] Early life A big Beckham birthday! It is at this stage in the investigation that police re-examine the suspicious death of Sally White. Whilst in custody Hardy was transferred to a psychiatric hospital, under section 37 of the Mental Health Act 1983, remaining there until November 2002.[11]. EXCLUSIVE: Florence Pugh's father is threatened with 2,500 fine as he goes to war with council over Oxford or debate this issue live on our message boards. A search of the flat uncovers vital evidence which will help to convict Hardy of the three horrific murders.In an attempt to uncover what had happened in the flat, police use a cutting edge forensic system called luminol, a process which reveals blood stains that cant be seen by the human eye. [10], Hardy pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal damage and claimed he had no knowledge of how White came to be in his flat due to his drinking problem. During an interview another health worker said: I remember a number of reactions. Looking back, it is amazing to think it was all over in 15 minutes. Freddy Patel thought marks on prostitute Sally. The panel found that Dr Freddy Patel's reports on the death of Sally White - the first victim of Anthony Hardy, "the Camden Ripper" - in 2002 were "irresponsible, not of the standard expected of a competent forensic pathologist and liable to bring the medical profession into disrepute". //--> The investigation has concluded and the matter has been subsequently classified as a No Crime.. Both the agency and the Home Office declined to comment. A priceless chance was lost when Sally White, now identified as Hardys first known victim, was discovered dead in his back room nearly a year before the deaths of Ms Valad and Ms MacClennan, two women who worked as prostitutes. Presumably, the police officers, the coroner of the day, the mental health services and even the council, as his landlord aware of Hardys low-level nuisance behaviour on the estate, would have been called to give evidence in an open forum. One community psychiatric nurse told the inquiry: With me it was just a gut feeling. A lot of mistakes were made.. [23], Two of the murders linked to Hardy occurred in Nottinghamshire, near to where Hardy grew up in Burton-on-Trent. 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. The GMC ruled that Patel made a string of errors and failed to fully consider the circumstances of White's death. Although Anthony was found. But after a US tourist produced video footage of. Dr Patel had told an earlier inquest that she had died from heart problems. Investigating a neighbour dispute, Sergeant Nick Spinks had visited Hardy at home. Dr Freddy Patel is accused . Alan Bostock asks his suspect about the incriminating photographs found in his flat. The investigation has concluded and the matter has been subsequently classified as a No Crime.. AETNUK All Rights Reserved. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of Terms and Conditions. In January 2002, police were called to the block of flats where Hardy lived by a neighbour complaining that someone had vandalised her front door and that she strongly suspected Hardy. Dr Freddy Patel, 63, was told on Friday that the case will not be added to a General Medical Council (GMC) hearing currently investigating four other post-mortems he conducted. Dr Patel Again * Inquiries into the doctor began after the Camden Ripper Anthony Hardy was caught in 2003. The first case involving the incompetence and misjudgement of Patel related to the first victim of the so-called Camden Ripper in 2002. advertising@camdennewjournal.com. Under arrest, Hardy simply replied "no comment" to every question put to him by police. [21] She was 24 years old and was also known as Cathy Dennis. 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. The investigation said that the mental health experts who assessed him and discharged him from St Lukes, a mental health hospital in Muswell Hill, just six weeks before his last two killings, could not have predicted what was to happen. 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. West End Extra, 40 Camden Road Camden Town London, NW1 9DR, Enquiries: Patel accepted that he did not adequately report on other possible causes of the marks of injury or their possible significance. The police had all this information but they did not convey it to the coroner. Dr Andrew Reid, the coroner at St Pancras Coroners Court in Somers Town, said: We have reviewed Dr Patels position in the light of the outcome of the hearing, and subject to any future hearings. But again the inquirys report reveals concerns which ran into dead ends, with mental health workers revealing how they feared Hardy had killed Ms White even after Dr Patel had concluded otherwise. 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. 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. A judge said he had committed the crimes to "satisfy his depraved and perverted needs". No comment, he repeatedly muttered in response to police questions. The health authoritys inquiry later reported: We are not in a position to comment usefully on Dr Ys post-mortem findings but we do have concerns about the statement provided by the police. The investigation led to Hardy, who was arrested a week later. The charges are dropped, 1999/2000 Hardy moves into a flat in Royal College Street in Camden, north London.