Dr Daniel Ubani wins costs from Cambridgeshire victim's son

[UglyGreed]

A man whose father was killed by a lethal overdose from a doctor said he feels "physically sick" at the idea of paying the physician's legal costs.

German locum Dr Daniel Ubani sued Rory Gray for calling him "an animal" during a confrontation in 2010.

A court in Germany proposed Mr Gray pay 75% of the case's legal costs and asked him to write to the doctor.

Dr Ubani injected 10 times the safe dose of diamorphine into David Gray, from Manea, Cambridgeshire, in 2008.

Rory Gray said he did not yet know how much money he was expected to pay his father's killer, but it would was "certainly in the thousands" of euros.

In a new written ruling, the Amtsgericht civil court in Lindau recommended that Mr Gray writes a letter to the medic promising never to call him an animal again, as well as paying the costs.


http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-29949021

[UglyGreed]

1. Dr Daniel Ubani: No UK extradition over patient death

Dr Ubani was on his first UK shift as a locum when he visited Mr Gray, who had renal colic, at home. He injected him with a fatal 100mg of diamorphine - 10 times the safe dose.

He was struck off in the UK but is still able to practise in Germany.

A European arrest warrant was issued by Cambridgeshire Police but could not be carried out because legal proceedings had begun in Germany.

"I'm astonished by the decision," said his son Rory .

"We don't even know if Dr Ubani is qualified, neither does Germany, so how can it have been an effective investigation?

His brother Stuart added: "It's bitterly, bitterly disappointing.

"On a national level it has signification ramifications because it allows anyone, not just doctors, to be totally unaccountable to UK law, go back to their own country and avoid a thorough and robust investigation into their criminality in this country."

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'Incompetent'

In 2010, Coroner William Morris ruled Mr Gray was unlawfully killed, described his death as "gross negligence and manslaughter" and said Dr Ubani was "incompetent".

Dr Ubani admitted he had confused the morphine with another drug.

He had flown into the UK the day before his 12-hour Cambridgeshire shift for GP service provider Take Care Now and had only had a few hours' sleep, a GMC panel was told.

A doctor who gave him an induction expressed concerns that Dr Ubani had no NHS experience, did not know the area and that he did not have enough time to properly train him.




http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-27518271

[djean111]

2. If that "doctor" is exempt from UK law, does that mean the poor man's son is exempt from the German

ruling?

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. The 'good' news is the sons were allowed to call him a charlatan and a killer

just not an 'animal'. Ubani really seems to be a self-entitled arsehole with no sense of proportion, dignity or humanity.