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Australia’s High Court has granted a retrial for former Indian-origin surgeon Dr. Jayant Patel convicted on charges of manslaughter. The High Court found that a ‘miscarriage of justice’ had occurred on the 43rd day of the 58-day trial, when the “prosecution radically changed its case in a way that rendered irrelevant much of the evidence that had been admitted”. According to the Brisbane Times, Dr. Patel nicknamed ‘Dr Death’ was sentenced to seven years’ jail in July 2010 after a Brisbane Supreme Court jury found him guilty of man slaughtering Gerry Kemps, 77, James Phillips, 46, and Mervyn Morris, 75. He was also found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm to Ian Rodney Vowles, 62. He had taken his appeal to the High Court, after he failed in the Queensland courts to overturn his convictions. The charges relate to Dr. Patel’s time as a surgeon at Queensaland's Bundaberg Base Hospital between March 2003 and April 2005, the report said.

Australian court grants retrial for Dr Death Patel in manslaughter conviction