UK News 09-06-2005 who: Professor Dick van Velzen what: Stockpiled hundreds of children`s body parts, tribunal is told where: MANCHESTER when: This week snippet: The Dutch pathologist, who is not attending or receiving legal representation, may be struck off the register of doctors who can practise in the UK at the conclusion of the three week General Medical Council (GMC) tribunal. His four-year suspension is about to expire. He is accused of directing staff at the Royal Liverpool Children`s Hospital to remove dead children`s body parts without the parents` knowledge permission, says The Scotsman. "Professor van Velzen was singled out for particular opprobrium in the official inquiry into the organ scandal at Alder Hey in 1999. Although the children`s hospital was found to have illicitly removed and stored children`s organs for decades, his actions attracted the most criticism." [... more]

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