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Nottingham Post
Nottingham Post
National
Jake Brigstock

Doctor defends care of fatally stabbed teen boy after he had raced to scene before shift started

A doctor who was the first on the scene at a fatal stabbing has said he would not have done anything differently after his care for the victim was challenged by a top surgeon.

On the morning of Boxing Day 2020, 16-year-old Joseph Whitchurch was stabbed four times in the kitchen of an address at Hickings Lane in Stapleford.

He died on December 29 2020 after being taken to the Queen's Medical Centre via ambulance.

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