Giving evidence by video link from Adelaide, where she now lives, M said Southall had repeatedly asked her how the older boy died and she demonstrated using a pencil and a shoelace. She told the panel that Southall looked at her and said 'very clever' in a sarcastic voice.
The boy was found hanging from a curtain rail. Southall said to her, she continued, sobbing: 'I put it to you that you killed your son by injecting him, hanging him up, leaving him there and then ringing an ambulance.'
During his six days of evidence, Southall said he was trying to protect the younger son and was concerned because the family had burned the curtain rail.
Southall said he was trying to investigate the death in a 'forensic manner' and insisted: 'I wanted to be correct.' He said he was also concerned about what he considered to be gaps in the police investigation and the following inquest - which returned an open verdict.
The GMC also found that Southall had wrongly removed documents relating to this case and that of another family, taking them from London's Royal Brompton hospital to the North Staffordshire Hospital NHS Trust when he changed jobs and adding them to a 'special file' of child abuse cases that he kept.
The GMC panel said that he 'damaged the integrity' of hospital medical records by his actions.
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