GDPUK.com – Coroner Demands GDC Action After Registrant Suicide
With each week more similarities emerge between the shocking behaviour of the Post Office towards its sub postmasters, and the shocking behaviour of the GDC towards its registrants. We know that apart from lives ruined by bankruptcy, criminal records, and mental health issues, a number of sub post masters were pushed over the edge and took their life as a result of the Post Office’s incompetence and dishonesty. Katrina Hepburn, HM Central and South East Kent Coroner, began to investigate the death by suicide of a dentist in late 2023. The background is that a Fitness to Practice investigation had been started by the GDC. Even worse, the IOC hearing report posted on the GDC’s hearings website, ran to seven pages of highly detailed yet unproven, allegations. Commenting on the practice of posting detailed allegations in this way the coroner wrote that, “Consequently, in my view, there exists a risk that future deaths will occur.” The report concludes: “In my opinion action should be taken