Please don't forget Ian Tomlinson

"An investigation by the BBC Radio 4 programme The Report will tomorrow find that Patel should not have been on the Home Office register when he was appointed to conduct the postmortem on Tomlinson by the City of London coroner.

Patel was not in a group practice, did not participate in peer reviewing, and did not have a contract with any police force, the programme finds, meaning he did not meet criteria for forensic pathology set out by the Home Office in 2006. The Report also claims the GMC could have prevented Patel from conducting further forensic autopsies in 2005, following a complaint over misdiagnosis in another case.

There is mounting pressure for the inquest into Tomlinson's death to be taken out of the hands of the coroner, Paul Matthews. Lawyers, politicians and supporters of the Tomlinson family have questioned the independence of Matthews and called for a high court judge to be placed in charge of the case." Report by The Guardian newspaper 30th July 2010.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/aug/19/ian-tomlinson-pathologist-not-qualified

Matthews has consistently refused to explain why he chose Patel to conduct the first postmortem. He declined to take part in the BBC programme, which also found that he refused two IPCC officials access to the original postmortem while it was being conducted by Patel.

The Report, which will be broadcast at 8pm, also points to City of London police involvement in the selection of Patel. The force, which ran the initial investigation into Tomlinson's death and tried to convince his family there was nothing suspicious about his collapse, "approved" the appointment of Patel and paid £2,500 toward his fee.