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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Sally Hind

Pathologist who probed Harold Shipman's crimes wants girl's body exhumed to prove murder

One of the UK’s top pathologists has backed calls to exhume a toddler’s body to prove she was murdered more than 60 years ago.

Professor Derrick Pounder investigated the notorious case of serial killer Harold Shipman, the twisted doctor responsible for at least 250 deaths in the 1990s.

Shipman mainly targeted elderly women, with 80% of his victims female OAPs, before he committed suicide in his cell at HMP Wakefield in 2004.

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