A locum surgeon made a 'gross' and 'extraordinary' error while operating on a seriously ill young man, an inquest heard. One specialist described the procedure, performed by Dr Yasser Rahman on William Spillane, as 'unknown to man' adding: "There's no possible reason why one would undertake that as a therapeutic measure'.
Coroner Catherine McKenna said she would consider whether Mr Spillane's death came as a result of neglect or gross negligence manslaughter.
An inquest into Mr Spillane's death, who died aged 27 in May 2021, heard that he went to Royal Oldham Hospital in August 2020 complaining of 'severe abdominal pain'.
But he wasn't seen by a surgeon until 28 hours later and it would be another eight hours before he had a CT scan and was taken to an operating theatre for surgery on a perforated bowel READ MORE: He was allowed to walk free...