RR (Fact Finding, Retrial , Fatal Poisoning)

Will Tyler QC (instructed by Delphine�Philip Law Ltd Solicitors) for the Applicant Sam King QC (instructed Litigant in Person) for the Respondent ____________________

This judgment was delivered in private. The judge has given leave for this version of the judgment to be published on condition that (irrespective of what is contained in the judgment) in any published version of the judgment the anonymity of the children and members of their family must be strictly preserved. All persons, including representatives of the media, must ensure that this condition is strictly complied with. Failure to do so will be a contempt of court.

i) During the time when the mother, father and the child were staying in the maternal grandparents' home in summer 2012 there were according to the mother and so far as the father can recall no other people staying at or who visited the home. The father was not at the property continuously but left to run errands for short periods of time.

ii) The maternal grandfather, maternal grandmother and the mother had all been poisoned by means of thallium on 11 September 2012.

iii) On 13 September 2012 the maternal grandfather died from acute poisoning by thallium, that being preceded by the rapid onset of severe symptoms caused by severe thallium poisoning.