Kelly Dent of Illogan near Redruth, Cornwall died at Treliske Hospital, Truro on September 2, during a procedure to insert a catheter tube into her chest.
The jury today retrired to consider its verdict in the trial of consultant surgeon Kenneth Woodburn, accused of the manslaughter of the year-old girl. Woodburn, 39, has pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter charge.
John White, 49, denies murdering his wife Rosie, 42, who was found crushed to death. Jackie Warne leaving Truro Crown Court, after giving evidence in the murder trial of a farmer accused of murdering his wife using a tractor and harrow. Surgeon Kenneth Woodburn arrives at Exeter Crown Court in connection with the death of Kelly Dent of Illogan near Redruth, Cornwall who died at Treliske Hospital, Truro on September 2, during a procedure to insert a catheter tube into her chest as part of her treatment.
The jury retrired to consider its verdict in the trial of consultant surgeon Kenneth Woodburn, accused of the manslaughter of the year-old girl. Current lightbox. Live chat. Truro Court Stock Photos and Images Page 1 of 2. Next page. Recent searches:. These recommendations were not implemented as such. Bodmin has retained the High Court as well as the Crown court during the seven years which have passed since the Courts Act came into force. Nevertheless, in , the then Lord Chancellor—the noble Lord Lord Hailsham—decided that interested parties in Cornwall should be consulted on the recommendation that, in the long run, Truro should become the High Court and Crown court centre for the county.
Extensive consultation was carried out by the Lord Chancellor's Department. Approaches were made to the judiciary, the leader of the Western circuit, law societies in Cornwall and Devon, the chairmen of the appropriate benches of magistrates, the county council and the councils of Bodmin, Truro and Penzance, the high sheriff and under-sheriff, the appropriate officials of the Devon and Cornwall constabulary, the prison department of the Home Office and the Cornwall branch of the Magistrates' Association.
The result was that the overwhelming majority of replies received were in favour of the move to Truro. However, in fairness to the hon. Gentleman, I must concede that the most substantial objector was the then Bodmin corporation, which argued, not unexpectedly, for the retention of the present arrangements. However, the Lord Chancellor's decision had to be taken in the light of the opinion of the county as a whole, and in October he accepted that the centre should be transferred to Truro when suitable accommodation could be built.
This decision was announced in answer to a question in another place on 16 November In view of the subsequent lack of protest or comment in Cornwall, it was assumed that the decision was broadly acceptable. It is a little surprising to find that, when the Government take the first moves to implement the decision some six years later, there is a significant body of opinion against the move. It is the Government's intention that High Court judges should continue to visit Cornwall to sit in both the High Court and the Crown court.
It is the Government's duty to provide the right facilities for this purpose, as well as for county courts. The alternative is for judges, barristers and solicitors, witnesses and jurors, prisoners, prison officers and the staff of the courts themselves to soldier on in outdated buildings which are often subject to unsatisfactory sharing arrangements.
In due course, if no new accommodation is provided, arrears of work will build up to unacceptable levels or the alternative solution of transferring work elsewhere will have to be adopted.
The Government cannot plan the future arrangements for the High Court, Crown court and county courts on a short-term, hand-to-mouth basis. Indeed, the reform of the courts brought about by the Courts Act was largely designed to enable Governments to think ahead and plan properly.
With great respect to the hon. Member and to the strongly and sincerely held views of his constituents, I am afraid that new accommodation will be required in the foreseeable future and that it is not possible, within the bounds of reasonable expenditure, to achieve this by adaptation of the existing courthouse.
I should like to explain the position in rather more detail. It has been said that the existing two courtrooms at Bodmin are not fully used. This is true at the present time, there being some spare capacity. Nevertheless, it would be dangerous indeed to plan on the basis that this fairly minimal spare capacity will continue to exist. The statistical projections for the work load of the Crown court over the next 10 years suggest that, by perhaps —88, the work load at Bodmin overall—that is, High Court, Crown court and county court—will be beyond the capacity of the two courtrooms.
It would be unwise not to plan some extension, but in any event courtroom capacity itself is not the main problem at present. The accommodation at Bodmin as a whole is very unsatisfactory by comparison with what is regarded as acceptable in modern terms. This is not to say that a fine building has not honourably served its purpose for a long time.
Gentleman made clear that Bodmin is very proud of its court, and rightly so, but it is years old and is deficient in a number of important ways. There is only one small consultation room, so that parties, counsel and solicitors have to manage as best they can in the public areas of the courthouse. There is little proper accommodation for judges sitting in the Crown court or for jurors or witnesses.
Equally, the cell accommodation is poor, and complaints have been dealt with only by assurances that proper facilities for prison staff as well as for prisoners will be provided in the proposed new building. Finally—and this is an important point—the court offices are in a separate building some distance away.
These are not proper facilities in this day and age. I understand the hon. Member's desire that, if money is to be spent, it should be directed to extension of the existing building, but it is simply not true that the building at Bodmin could be adapted economically to provide an additional courtroom and the fairly extensive facilities for offices and court users that are clearly needed.
The Property Services Agency has re-examined the position very recently. It has reached the conclusion that the courthouse at Bodmin would be very difficult to extend or adapt. It is built of granite and is on an island site. There would appear to be little hope, therefore, of extending the building outwards. Furthermore, the courthouse is a scheduled building.
Experience shows that it is very difficult to predict, and even more difficult to contain, expenditure on major adaptations of historic buildings. Consequently, any extension at Bodmin would have to be made more or less within the framework of the existing building.
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