May 2026: Thirlwall Inquiry report delayed to at least September 2026 · six-baby inquests relisted to 2027 · CCRC review active · Shoo Lee Panel: no medical evidence of deliberate harm.
Outcome: Died 24 June 2016
Gestation: Triplet brother of Child O
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Air into stomach.
Method alleged: Air-in-stomach via NG tube.
Prosecution experts: Dr Dewi Evans; Dr Sandie Bohin.
Panel: findings consistent with triplet-pregnancy complications and clinical deterioration.
Fatal outcome. Triplet pregnancy context. Baby P was the second of the three triplets (sibling of Babies O and Q) to die, 24 hours after Baby O. Original post-mortem addressed. Panel finding: complications of triplet pregnancy and the physiological stress response to co-triplet death fully account for the clinical course. Triplet pregnancies have well-documented high-variance outcomes with mortality rates substantially above twins and singletons; within-set variance is large enough that a two-death, one-survival outcome across a single triplet set is not statistically improbable. The Hawkins/Gill 'Triplets to Singletons' research addresses the tertiary-referral-pattern question at the Countess of Chester specifically (should high-risk triplets have been delivered at Liverpool Women's Hospital rather than at the Countess of Chester Level 2 unit).
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