Doctor refers himself to GMC amid concerns over evidence given in baby death court cases

The leading expert on bone injuries in court cases on baby deaths has referred himself to the General Medical Council after a High Court judge accused him of having “a closed mind” and making “a number of repeated mistakes.”12In a High Court family division case last year, Mr Justice Keehan said that David Mangham was “currently the only forensic consultant histopathologist accepting instructions in cases of suspicious death and/or inflicted injuries in this country.” The judge added, “The consequences of this state of affairs, however, is that he has a huge workload.”Doubts over his evidence in criminal cases have since come to light. Three months after the High Court judgment Laura Langley was cleared at Preston Crown Court of murdering her 7 week old daughter, after two defence experts disputed Mangham’s evidence about the cause of rib fractures, agreeing that they were instead caused by cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Now three…