The Offender Database reported that, in 2018, a High Court judge had rejected a bid by Paul Worthington, the Paedophile Baby Raper, father of Poppi Worthington, to remove details of her sexual abuse and change the official record of her death, and ordered him to pay costs for bringing a judicial review.
Paul Worthington’s lawyers claimed a coroner had “overstepped the mark” at the inquest into the 13-month-old’s death, over how David Roberts, Senior Coroner for Cumbria, officially recorded the reasons for her death following her inquest in January.
But Mrs Justice Farbey, sitting at the High Court in Manchester, ruled the coroner’s approach “cannot be faulted” and in a 17-page legal judgment, ordered Mr Paul Worthington – who is on Legal Aid – should pay the court costs, subject to his ability to pay.
Mr Paul Worthington, then 50, a former supermarket worker, took his case to the High Court, where high-profile barrister Leslie Thomas QC represented him before three Law Lords.
Coroner Mr Roberts ruled in January that Poppi was penetrated in her father’s double bed at the family home in Barrow-in-Furness in the early hours of December 12, 2012, but this did not cause her death.
He concluded Poppi Worthington suffocated as she slept next to her father in an “unsafe sleeping environment”.
The ruling mirrored the findings of two earlier High Court judgments.
During the inquest, Mr Paul Worthington refused to answer questions about his daughter’s death 252 times, so as not to incriminate himself.
CHILLING evidence exposed the horrific sexual and physical abuse suffered by little Poppi Worthington before her death – but her dad will never be charged.
Poppi’s dad, Paul Worthington, has avoided prosecution for his daughter’s death three times – despite a coroner ruling he sexually assaulted her.
Chances of a prosecution have failed mainly because of a failure to collect vital evidence – such as Poppi Worthington’s bed sheets and samples from her body – by bungling cops.
And now a High Court judge has dismissed a judicial review bid brought by Paul Worthington over the coroner’s findings.
Poppi Worthington was just 13 months old when she died in December 2012 after being found with serious injuries at her home in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.
The tot’s DNA was found on her dad’s, Paul Worthington’s, genitals, but a bungling police investigation failed to place him under arrest for eight months.
A sickening catalogue of abuse suffered by Poppi in her tragically short life included horrific internal injuries, a broken leg, “significant” bleeding caused by penetration and bruises to her throat.
Other harrowing evidence included red inner thighs and a blood-soaked nappy, which was lost by shit-eating cops.
On January 15 this year, a coroner ruled that she was sexually assaulted before suffocating on a double bed.
The sickening catalogue of abuse Poppi suffered:
- Horrific internal injuries to her anus most likely caused by an “erect penis or object”
- Broken leg, with two fractured bones
- “Significant” bleeding “caused by penetration”
- Bruises to her throat
- Red inner thighs
- Blood-soaked nappy – lost by bungling cops
- Arrived at the hospital cold, floppy, blue and with no heartbeat or pulse
During the inquest verdict, the court was told that only Poppi Worthington’s dad knew what happened before the tot’s death. Still, he, Paul Worthington, had declined to shed light during questioning, refusing to answer 252 statements put to him.
Poppi Worthington’s heartbroken mum wept as she revealed she heard her daughter scream out on the night of her death.
Moments later, Paul Worthington ran down the stairs with the lifeless tot in his arms after suffering “significant” bleeding described by a horrified doctor as “unlike anything I’ve seen in my career.”
A harrowing 999 call in which Poppi Worthington’s mum can be heard crying “come on baby, come on Poppi, keep going” as her dad, Paul Worthington, performed CPR on the sofa in their living room, was later released.
It then emerged that Paul Worthington had been watching “X-rated” porn on a laptop on the night that Poppi Worthington had died.
He is alleged to have then passed the computer to neighbour Wayne Roebuck, the paedophile’s friend, who claimed to have lost it after lending it to another man.
But key clues were chucked in the bin as a police investigation got underway – including the blood-soaked nappy Poppi was wearing.
Even the bed where the youngster spent her final minutes was not preserved by the uncaring cops at Cumbria Police, who had failed to find her pyjama bottoms and blanket.
The series of failures by Cumbria Police means no one has ever been prosecuted over Poppi’s sexual abuse or death.
It took nine months for Cumbria Police to arrest Paul Worthington and formally interview him for the first time, despite the IPCC finding there was sufficient evidence just a day or two into the investigation.
High Court family judges ruled in both 2014 and 2016 that Poppi Worthington was abused by her dad shortly before her death.
However, in March 2015, in a baffling climbdown, Paul Worthington was informed that he would not face charges – a decision the CPS attributed to “insufficient evidence”.
And after the inquest, they again came under pressure to re-examine the case against Worthington – but a fourth review into the tot’s death was not held.
A CPS spokesman said at the time: “It has been looked at twice, both in terms of after the original police investigation and then later after the victim’s right to review.
“There are no current plans to look at it again.”
Despite this, Paul Worthington is currently living a life of relative anonymity, being granted the freedom to live under police protection and shielded from the public eye, while denying any wrongdoing.
Poppi’s mum said the family had been left in a “complete nightmare” because the truth around her daughter’s death would never be revealed.
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