Marcus Safadi's Suicide Case Study

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This complaint concerns the criminal activities of Marcus Safadi, Registrar for Public Health England and Christopher Burke, former Director at Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WPH), together with Josephine Archer, herself a former WPH Nurse, who forged both signatures of an elderly WPH patient on a Will they fabricated as they all sought to profit from her death. Weeks later, and under the pretence of suicide, they exploited her vulnerability by preventing her from receiving, timely, lifesaving treatment. Aware 'sedation without hydration' would end her life, they put her on the 'pathway to death'. When the terminal stage was taking too long, their accomplice, MSPB1 sufferer, Odette Kelly, maliciously tampered with

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