NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is now likely to face charges of corporate homicide after the death of 10-year-old Milly Main.
Scotland ’s largest health board are likely to face corporate homicide charges into the deaths of three children and an adult, the Sunday Mail can reveal. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have been named as a formal suspect in a criminal investigation which could lead to the first-ever prosecution case of its kind in Scotland .
And it could also open the door for individual bosses or senior staff to be prosecuted. Milly and the three other patients who died at the hospital were a 73-year-old, three-year-old boy and an unnamed 10-year-old boy. NHSGGC chiefs only informed board members of the developments yesterday after the Sunday Mail asked them about it. Members were told the new ‘suspect’ status was in relation to the investigation into the deaths of four patients at the QEUH campus.
Top news stories today “I long argued that had this scandal occurred in the private sector, there would have been a criminal investigation. I hope the full force of the law is used so that no family ever again has to go through what Milly’s family have been through.” He said: “Prosecutors wouldn’t necessarily have to wait for a conviction to happen either. If, in the course of the preparation for any trial for this charge, it becomes apparent that they want to charge individuals they wouldn’t need to wait for a conviction to do that. Evidence may become available that could justify those individual proceedings.”
The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry was ordered by former health secretary Jeane Freeman after dozens of patients became sick and some died at the QEUH since it opened in 2015.
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