Plea to find dad’s laptop for clues to Poppi’s death
AN MP yesterday appealed for help in finding a laptop belonging to Poppi Worthington’s father in a bid to solve the mystery of her death.
Paul Worthington, 50, has been accused by a coroner and a judge of sexually abusing his daughter before she died, aged 13 months, in 2012.
John Woodcock, Labour MP for Barrow, said: “It seems what little hope remains of a prosecution rests on finding Paul Worthington’s laptop.
“I appeal to anyone who has any information to come forward.”
But after a succession of police blunders and an inquest at which he refused to answer 252 questions he has never been charged.
The inquest heard Worthington watched pornography on his laptop the evening Poppi died, but bungling police never seized it as evidence.
Ex-neighbour Wayne Roebuck, 39, was last week quizzed on suspicion of perverting the course of justice regarding the missing computer.
But he later told reporters he is refusing to reveal its whereabouts, insisting: “That laptop is long gone.”
Cumbria Police said: “Officers arrested a 39-year-old man on suspicion of assisting an offender.
“The male is co-operating with enquires and has been released under investigation.”
Worthington has always denied any involvement in Poppi’s death from asphyxiation in his bed at his home in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.
Last week the Crown Prosecution Service said there would be no fourth review of the criminal case.