Should a race probe take place?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....-claims-cover-up.html

/// A team of 15 detectives assigned to the case is also expected to investigate whether ethnicity may have played a part in any of the deaths.///

Does it make any difference, there have been six deaths and they should be investigated equally regardless of ethnicity?

I wonder if the police would have shown the same concern, if the majority of the mums and babies in the maternity ward had been of ethnic origin, and five of the six victims had been white?

Would that also have been a cause of concern regarding the race issue?

[jackthehat]

If there is a common factor in the deaths, it is only right and proper that the Police Investigation should take that into account.

[sandyRoe]

The 'race issue' will be just one aspect of the investigation. I think grief for the loss of a new born baby knows no boundaries as fas as colour of skin is concerned.

[youngmafbog]

It is, no doubt, one of many angles Plod will be looking at. It makes sense that as 5 out of 6 were from ethnic backgrounds that it should be looked at. I suspect the Old bill would do the same in the reverse situation, just probably would not be reported.

[Gromit]

If there are any common factors involved then it should be looked at. If say, they were all of the same blood group, or were all on the same medicine then it would be looked at.

And is your persecution complex so acute now that you think white people dying would not be properly investigated?

[pa___ul3]

it's a stand out anomaly that only the ignorant could ignore, to dicover the root cause you have to look at every possibility, it's good policing.
If it were the other way round, and only 1 in 6 were from an ethnic minority it wouldn't have been such a statistical anomaly so would maybe not have stood out for specific attention.

[sp1814]

Gromit...breath-taking, isn't it?

[THECORBYLOON]

aog, the article shows that only 2% of the mothers in the hospital are from ethnic minorities. I know that this may come as shock to you but there are some folk who have a major problem wi folk who are not white or come from non-Engish stock. It's weird eh? There may not be a connexion but it can not be ignored.