There will be no inquest into the death of Baby P, a coroner ruled today.
Peter Connelly's father had wanted a full hearing to find out exactly what happened to his son, who died aged 17 months at the hands of his mother Tracey, her boyfriend Steven Barker and Barker's brother Jason Owen in 2007. The boy had suffered more than 50 injuries despite receiving 60 visits from social workers, doctors and police in Tottenham, north London, over eight months. Connelly, Barker and Owen were jailed for causing or allowing his death.
But today North London coroner Andrew Walker said he believed questions about the circumstances of the toddler's death had already been answered in previous investigations by the authorities and new evidence was unlikely to come to light, leaving insufficient cause for an inquest.
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