So – The Goose is to be roasted in the oven of the courts. The CPS has decided that Ray ‘I did it wiv t’pillah’ Gosling has led the police on one big, err, goose chase, and that he should be charged with, err, leading the police on a wild goose chase.
Meanwhile, the very same CPS has decided that Gosport’s Diamorphine Queen, Dr Jane Barton, should not go for a Burton, despite a sea of inquest findings suggesting Barton’s overzealous opiate prescribing contributed to a number of deaths.
This is, after all, the same CPS that declared itself bamboozled by conflicting post mortem reports on the death of Ian Tomlinson. Dr Maroof Aboo-Seer Sinbad ‘Shreddie’ Patel – already in trouble with the GMC, and erroneously maintained on the Home Office Register of Forensic Pathologists – ‘helped’ the police with their enquiries, and concluded Tomlinson died of natural causes, only to have that conclusion reversed by two later pathologists.
And the same CPS that decided Friends At the End (FATE) member and former GP Dr Libby Wilson should not face prosecution under the Suicide Act despite advising Catherine Loder on the effectiveness of helium inhalation as a way to kill herself.
Four different cases, all in the news over the last few days, and all involving one or more alleged unnatural deaths: and yet the CPS is to prosecute only one – and that for wasting police time.
Which begs the question: what if the police had found some evidence that The Goose had snuffed his bit on the side all those years ago? Might there, instead of a prosecution, been a lot of whinnying about ‘insufficient evidence’ to mount a prosecution ‘after all these years’?
The message, it seems, is clear. Doctors and the Police can, as they say, get away with murder – but woe betide he who wastes police time.
If only he’d kept the pillah as “insufficient evidence” Could have saved himself all this bother!
We witches can be particularly thick over some things, and I accept I might well be wrong in my interpretation. However, my understanding is that Dr Wilson in fact was the founder of FATE and therefore the legalising of assisted suicide/euthanasia is likely to be very important to her. I cannot see therefore how it is not in the public interest to prosecute someone who may well be a test case for changing the lights to amber and then to green regarding medical participation in assisted suicide / euthanasia.
Why would she or other members of FATE not do the same thing again if the opportunity arose? If there is no reason why they would not, then that is certainly in the public interest.
Or can you do whatever you like when you are in your 80’s?
This post is quite fascinating to me.
You see an NHS Hospital, headed by a Fellow of the National Leadership Council, has been leading me up the garden path which is in a way a ‘Wild Goose Chase’.
This chap, CE at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals has led me a merry dance and has been wasting my time – FIVE (5 years) in fact, with his various romancing stories regarding the treatment of one of his patients, my Dad.
Does Dr. No think that the CPS may charge this ‘Knight of the Realm’ for wasting my time or will he be ‘erroneously maintained’ as the Great Leader of another failing NHS Hospital because he can help to keep the status quo of the ‘Old Boys Club’?
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