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The consultant paediatrician who failed to spot that the abused toddler Baby P had serious injuries when she examined him two days before his death is suicidal and has fled the United Kingdom, a General Medical Council panel that was due to start hearing a disciplinary case against her on Monday was told.
Rebecca Poulet QC, counsel for the GMC, told the fitness to practise panel that Sabah Al-Zayyat had been examined by a consultant psychiatrist, who wrote, "In my opinion, Dr Al-Zayyat has become so seriously ill...