The liberal-left is very rapid to react when a terror suspect faces deportation or an extremist preacher is put under house-arrest. So why isn’t it on the streets chanting the name of Honey Rose? Ms Rose is an optometrist who appeared in court on Tuesday charged with manslaughter by gross negligence after allegedly failing to spot a condition known as papilloedema while examining an eight-year-old boy during a shift at Boots. Sadly, the boy later died.
I always used to associate manslaughter with husbands who bashed their wives over the head and whom it couldn’t quite be proven that they had intended to kill them, or with muggers who assailed their victims solely with the intent of grabbing their wallet, not knowing that they had a heart condition.
So why is such a serious charge being used against someone who is accused of making a professional mistake? It has overtones of the six Italian seismologists sentenced to six years in jail – though later acquitted – for failing to predict an earthquake in the city of L’Aquila in 2009.
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