Pensioner 'Died of Heart Attack' ; a Prominent Home Office Pathologist has Told a Court the City Pensioner Allegedly Killed When He Took Penicillin Prescribed by His Doctor, Probably Died of a Heart Attack Not Connected to Anaphylactic Shock.

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A prominent Home Office pathologist has told a court the city pensioner allegedly killed when he took penicillin prescribed by his doctor, probably died of a heart attack not connected to anaphylactic shock.

Dr Nathaniel Cary, who worked on the Baby P case and the Ipswich prostitute murders, was giving evidence in the case of Dr Mitra Nikkhah, 41, who denies the manslaughter by gross negligence of 73- year-old David Townsend.

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Pensioner 'Died of Heart Attack' ; a Prominent Home Office Pathologist has Told a Court the City Pensioner Allegedly Killed When He Took Penicillin Prescribed by His Doctor, Probably Died of a Heart Attack Not Connected to Anaphylactic Shock.

Dr Cary said fatal anaphylaxis was "vanishingly rare" while a heart attack was the most common cause of natural death in the Western...

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