A GP who saw Baby Peter eight days before his death has been suspended from working as a doctor for 12 months.
The General Medical Council had already ruled there were “serious failings” in Dr Jerome Ikwueke’s care.
Peter, from north London, died aged 17 months in August 2007 after sustained abuse.
Dr Ikwueke, 63, who was the family’s GP, had noted that the toddler was not his “usual happy self”, seemed “withdrawn” and pulled away when he saw him for the last time on July 26 2007.
The GMC had said the GP breached his professional duty towards the child in not carrying out a full examination, making an urgent referral for further checks or sharing information with a health visitor or social workers.
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