A junior doctor convicted over the death of a six-year-old boy has won an appeal to keep her job. Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba was struck off the medical register for life after Jack Adcock died from sepsis at Leicester Royal Infirmary in 2011.

The medic was sentenced to two years in prison suspended for two years in 2015 after the prosecution said Jack died after a series of failings by medical staff.

Nottingham Crown Court heard “any competent junior doctor” would have made a correct diagnosis after an inquiry totted up 21 clinical ­mistakes made in his case.

Dr Bawa-Garba ordered blood tests for Jack, who had Down’s ­syndrome and who had been treated as a baby for a bowel abnormality and a hole in the heart.

But she took several hours to review the results, which would ­have led her to the conclusion that it was sepsis rather than a stomach bug much sooner.

Jack was on a prescription for the drug enalapril for his heart ­condition, which reverses the body’s defence to sepsis.

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