John and Tracey Gamble, parents of Baby Frank, leaving the coroner's court in Chelmsford earlier today. Picture courtesy of Martin Rose/East News.
A CORONER has found "serious failings" in the care given to a baby who died shortly after birth.
Frank Gamble was born at 7.20pm on April 18 last year but died at 10.54pm after a bleed on the brain caused by a fractured skull.
An inquest into his death found the cause of the fracture to be misuse of forceps in a failed attempt to deliver Frank, whose family are from Clacton.
Coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray recorded a narrative verdict into Baby Frankie's death today but said: "There were very serious failings in the care which Tracey Gamble and her baby Frank received at Colchester Hospital. If that care had been provided better Baby Frank might have survived."
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