He said: “Ms Parveen has been failed by both the Trust and the doctor. There can be no doubt about that.” Employers could force workers to retire at 65, but this law was abolished in April 2011, following a campaign by Age UK. Prosecutor Mr Thomas told the court that Ms Parveen was with her husband Khizar Mahmood when she went for the biopsy and gave her consent for the sample to be taken from her hip bone. Having failed to use this ‘conventional’ approach, Dr Mamman decided to take a sample from the sternum. This approach, although occasionally used, is extremely rare and considered dangerous precisely because the heart is located directly below the sternum. Mr Thomas told the court that Ms Parveen lost consciousness as soon as the needle was inserted, but Dr Mamman did not raise the alarm.
“I told him to stop three times”
A nurse said Mr Mahmoud ran out shouting: “He killed her. I told him to stop three times but he didn’t listen. He killed her.” Speaking to another nurse, Mr Mahmood described in detail what had happened, he said: “[Dr Mamman] she continued forcefully putting the screwdriver into her chest. “There was blood everywhere, around her neck and on the sheets. This ordeal cost her her life.” Mr Thomas said the question of the doctor’s actual age was “a matter of contention” as he does not have a birth certificate. He was born in the province of Nigeria that did not have a birth registration system. He entered medical school in Ibadan in 1958 and gave his date of birth as 16 September 1936. He registered as a doctor with the GMC in July 1965 and gave the same date of birth. But at some point he claimed a later date of birth of 1941 when he obtained a Nigerian passport and that date was given to the employers.
He “devoted his life” to the patients
In 2001, he claimed an even later date of October 1947 on which he based his naturalization as a British citizen. Mr. Thomas said that if this were true, he would have begun his medical studies at the age of ten. Michael Hayton QC, defending, said: “He is a doctor who has dedicated his life to the care and treatment of patients for many years… “He should never have been able to carry out this procedure. His skills had diminished significantly from the younger doctor he was.’ Ms Justice Yip said she would sentence Mamman on Tuesday and told him to expect a prison sentence.
