Poppi Worthington: Coroner Orders New Inquest
Coroner David Llewelyn Roberts has said the inquest will commence on 18 March, and explained there was a "substantial public interest" in the case. In January, it emerged a judge had ruled that, on the balance of probabilities, Poppi was sexually assaulted by her father, Paul Worthington, just before her death. Mr Justice Peter Jackson had said: "Shorn to its essentials, the situation is one in which a healthy child with no medical condition or illness was put to bed by her mother one eveni
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