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Baby P was probably suffering from eight broken ribs when he saw his GP eight days before his death, the General Medical Council heard today.

By Sam Marsden, Press Association

Tuesday, 15 June 2010

An expert said the little boy would have felt “acute pain” from his injuries if he had been picked up at the time of his consultation with Dr Jerome Ikwueke.

It is also likely that the toddler – now named as Peter Connelly – had a mouth injury known as a classic sign of abuse when he saw the doctor on July 26 2007, a GMC fitness to practise panel heard.

Dr Ikwueke, 63, is accused of failing to carry out an adequate examination of Peter or make an urgent referral to hospital despite knowing the child was on the at-risk register and noting his behaviour had changed.

Eight days later, on August 3 2007, he died in a blood-spattered cot in Tottenham, north London, aged 17 months...Continue reading