No justice for tot failed by so many
BY rights Poppi Worthington should be at school this morning.
She should be sat in a Year One classroom practising her reading or painting rainbows.
Instead she has spent the last five years in a Cumbrian graveyard denied all that life could offer.
What’s more she has been denied justice by an incompetent police investigation, a pathetic justice system, and ultimately, by her deviant father.
On Monday, at Kendal Coroner’s Court, came the third judgement concluding 13-month-old Poppi was sexually assaulted in the hours before her death in December 2012.
No one can be certain how she actually died, because only she and her father Paul Worthington were in the bedroom that night. And Worthington has consistently refused to say a single word about it.
So while little Poppi has lain in that windswept cemetery, let’s consider what’s happened to the other main players in this terrible saga...
Her father is being kept in a witness protection scheme costing taxpayers like you and me £50,000 per year. He is likely to remain that way from now on which means we’ll probably shell out the best part of a million pounds over his worthless
Deviant dad, CPS, cops and coroner all betrayed little Poppi
lifetime. And even when he declined 252 times to answer questions about Poppi’s death at the most recent inquest, still his payday continues.
Meanwhile, there are the police officers who so fouled up the investigation into the baby’s death that by the time they questioned Worthington there was insufficient evidence to charge him. The mistakes were multiple.
A report by the Independent Police Complaints Commission concluded two officers had a case to answer for gross misconduct.
But one retired on a full pension before disciplinary action could be taken. The other was demoted, but still retired on a police pension too. Again, paid for by us the taxpayers. And then there is the South Cumbria coroner Ian Smith who in 2014 took just seven minutes to declare Poppi’s death ‘unexplained’.
And of course the taxpayer-funded CPS who said there was ‘insufficient evidence’ in July 2016 to charge Paul Worthington.
It is a litany of incompetence, negligence and inaction. While Paul Worthington has been rewarded for abuse. Not to mention what hasn’t been proved about him.
So, all in all, life has turned out OK for Worthington, the failed police officers, the seven-minute coroner and the crown prosecutors.
And Poppi? No, life didn’t turn out at all. Betrayed in death as she was in life. And it is an absolute disgrace.