Police investigating the deaths of hundreds of patients who died after being given opioid painkillers at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in Hampshire have identified 24 suspects.
Police told families they had identified 21 people suspected of alleged gross negligence manslaughter and three suspected of alleged offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act. Interviews have been carried out under caution. but no arrests have yet been made.
The police investigation was launched in 2019 after an independent review panel concluded that at least 456 patients had had their lives shortened in the period from 1987 to …
