Father to take legal action against police after being dragged from dying daughter’s hospital bed christiantoday.com

A father who was dragged from the hospital bedside of his terminally ill daughter is pursuing legal action against the police, claiming wrongful arrest.

Dr Rashid Abbasi, a longtime NHS respiratory consultant, was arrested by police when he refused to leave his six-year-old daughter’s bedside shortly after being informed that doctors were planning to withdraw life support without the family’s consent.

His daughter Zainab suffered from the rare genetic illness Niemann-Pick disease. She died last September, shortly before a hearing had been due to take place on the removal of her life support.

Shocking footage of the arrest was captured on a police body cam, with Dr Abbasi saying he later suffered a heart attack…

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