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http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=31383&SESSION=875

EDM 2767

WORK OF PROFESSOR DAVID SOUTHALL
17.10.2006

That this House notes that according to the report written by
Professor David Hull for North Staffordshire Trust about the work
of Professor David Southall in the report written for the
University Hospital of North Staffordshire by Professor McLeish and
Dr Durbin, Professor McLeish said that Professor Southall `pursued
multiple clinical research studies that were poorly designed and
therefore were unlikely to produce new knowledge of worth. More
worryingly he appears to have had insufficient regard for the
ethical standards that should surround all clinical studies in
babies’; believes that such comments are important comments that
require proper consideration; is surprised that the University
Hospital of North Staffordshire is unable to find a copy of this
report; calls for the hospital to find a copy of this report and
publish its contents; and further calls for an independent judicial
or Parliamentary inquiry into the research and clinical activities
of Professor David Southall, the failure of the regulatory system
to prevent unethical experiments on babies managed by Professor
Southall and the misuse of child protection and judicial procedures
both to prevent parents from raising complaints about his research
and procure children for his research.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1859611,00.html

Monday August 28, 2006
Guardian

Detectives have stepped up an investigation into claims that the
leading paediatrician David Southall left a child brain damaged as
a result of a controversial breathing experiment 15 years ago, the
Guardian has learned.

South Wales police have broadened their inquiry into an allegation
that Professor Southall assaulted the boy by carrying out the test
and are asking dozens of parents whose children may have come into
contact with the paediatrician over the years to come forward if
their child suffered any injuries as a result of his treatment.
Professor Southall has denied that his treatment has harmed any
child.

In a letter to parents last week, Detective Inspector Chris
Mullane, of the force’s child protection unit, said further
inquiries could be opened as a result of the responses from
parents. The letter says police are investigating an allegation of
assault on a boy that may have occurred while he was undergoing
treatment by Prof Southall at the University Hospital of Wales. It
asks parents: “Has your child been treated directly or indirectly
by Professor Southall … Did your child suffer any injuries or
adverse effects from that treatment … Have you reported this
matter to the police or any other body?”

The investigation began after the parents of Ben McLean alleged
that he had been left brain damaged by Prof Southall’s experiments
at the University Hospital of Wales in 1991.

The child’s mother, Davina McLean, believes that without their
informed consent, her five-year-old son was given carbon dioxide to
breathe and his airway was occluded during a sleep study. She
claims that she and her husband were forced to take part in the
study after Prof Southall said they were suffering from
Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy, and warned that unless they allowed
Ben to take part he would be taken into care. Prof Southall has
also denied these claims.

When Ben left hospital he was placed in foster care, but a year
later a court found the McLeans had not harmed their child. Ben,
now 20, lives with his parents and has severe speech and learning
difficulties. Mrs McLean told the Guardian: “We are pleased that
other parents out there who may have concerns are being contacted.
All we want is justice for our son.”

Prof Southall has attracted praise and controversy during his long
career. Last year he was found guilty of serious professional
misconduct and banned from child protection work for three years
after wrongly accusing the husband of Sally Clark of killing their
baby sons.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/realmedia/midlandstoday/bulletin.ram

South Wales Police Heddlu De Cymru

Working with the Community Cydweithio Gyda’r Gymuned

Public Protection Unit
Central Police Station
King Edward VII Avenue
Cathays Park
CARDIFF
CF10 3NN

Telephone (029) 20527272

10th August 2006

Dear

South Wales Police are currently investigating an allegation of
assault on a young boy that may have occurred whilst undergoing
treatment by Professor David Southall at the University Hospital of
Wales.

I have been given your details by Mr William BACHE, Solicitor, who
assures me that he has your authority for me to make contact with
you.

I would be obliged if I could be provided with certain replies to
the below questions. I must emphasise that South Wales Police are
not carrying out an enquiry into Professor Southall, but are
investigating one allegation of assault carried out in our force
area. It may well transpire that further enquiries are carried out
in the future if document dictate that to be the appropriate course
of action. Please reply via email if you wish or I have enclosed a
S.A.E.for your convenience.

1. Has your child been treated directly or indirectly by Professor Southall.
2. If yes please outline the document of that treatment.
3. Did your child suffer any injuries or adverse effects from that
treatment.
4. Have you reported this matter to the Police or any other body
such as the GMC (please specify).
5. If you reported the matter to the police
i) which force
ii) when
iii) have you details of an investigating officer or any other
means of reference
iv) Result of the Police investigation

My apologies for being brief and to the point, but I am sure you
appreciate the complexities of this enquiry.

Yours faithfully

Chris Mullane
DETECTIVE INSPECTOR
chris.mullane@south-wales.pnn.police.uk

DAILY EXPRESS TUESDAY FEBRUARY 6 2001 Page 30

Scandal of ‘smothered’ babies in cot death test
Police investigate experiments on little children with lung problems

EXCLUSIVE
BY LUCY JOHNSTON
AND JONATHAN CALVERT

SECRET hospital cot death experiments in which doctors planned deliberately
to `smother’ babies are being investigated by police.

The research project, devised by some of Britain’s leading child
specialists,
envisaged using tiny infants with severe breathing difficulties.

The babies’ faces were to be covered with a mask attached to a breathing
machine and their mouths `smothered’ for up to 10 seconds on five occasions.

It is not clear whether the scheme was ever fully carried out, but
it appears that some parts did take place.

The controversial procedure, approved by an ethics committee, was
regarded as safe. The infants would be secretly monitored by
doctors as they got older. If they died of unrelated illness,
pieces of their lungs, brains, livers, and hearts would be sent to
a pathologist in Sheffield Children’s
Hospital for analysis and comparison with the project data.

The study was designed to help discover whether cot death was
caused by breathing and heart abnormalities and involved children
across the country.

In a highly unusual move, doctors decided they would not seek
written consent from parents because they did not want to cause
alarm.

The study, named the Sudden Infant Death Project, was planned to be
carried out at three hospitals: Rotherham District General, the
Doncaster Royal Infirmary and the Barnsley District Hospital during
the late Eighties and early Nineties.

A spokesperson for the Rotherham District General Hospital said:
“Our consultant has said that the study did go ahead so I’m pretty
sure it did.”

A spokeswoman for the Doncaster Royal Infirmary said it could not
comment on the matter “because it is subject of a police inquiry”.

The Daily Express has evidence the experiment could also have been
conducted at other hospitals. Two sets of parents believe their
children were brain damaged after being put into similar
experiments.

The two children, whose brains were developing normally, now have
speech and co-ordination problems and severe learning difficulties.

The parents have not been able to find out what happened while
their children were in hospital.

British Medical Journal paper recording the experimentation in smothering.

What higher authority to confirm this evil practice?

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/316/7135/887

or condensed URL here

http://tinyurl.com/2so6pd