"He killed her! I told him to stop three times and he did not listen": Elderly doctor, 85, jailed for killing patient during 'routine' procedure

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An elderly hospital doctor has been jailed for three years after he killed a patient during a 'routine' procedure, as a judge slammed 'failings in the system'.

Shahida Parveen died aged 48 at the Royal Oldham hospital after Dr Isyaka Mamman carried out a bone marrow biopsy. After failing to gain a sample in the conventional way via the hip bone, the doctor used a 'rare' and 'dangerous' procedure to carry out the procedure via the sternum, which Mrs Parveen had not consented to.

Dr Mamman continued even as she 'screamed' in pain and her husband of 31 years 'begged' him to stop. The conduct of Dr Mamman, now 85, had been called into question twice before following two serious incidents three years earlier.

He had left a 64-year-old man permanently disabled, and a woman was left in considerable pain after Dr Mamman had carried out the same procedure on both patients. READ MORE:Cannabis farm, weapons and drugs found in police sweep following reports of criminality Mrs Justice Yip said Mrs Parveen, a mum-of-three, had been 'badly let down', and that it was 'hard to understand' why the doctor had not retired following the two previous incidents. "It is difficult to see why the Trust did not do more, and why you were allowed to continue to work without any measures being taken to address your competence or to support you," the judge told Dr Mamman. "Sadly, there were failings in the system as identified by the investigations after Mrs Parveen’s death.