Parents of child ‘killed by nurse’s negligence’ facing nine year wait for justice

A nurse accused of killing a seven-year-old boy at Britain’s biggest private children’s hospital may not be tried until November 2025 – over nine years after the child died. James Dwerryhouse suffered a catastrophic brain injury at the Portland Hospital when a blood saturation monitor was allegedly shut down for nearly three hours without a doctor’s permission in 2016. Anuradha Bhupathiraju, 63, was not charged with manslaughter by gross negligence until March last year. She did not appear in court…

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