Under his own name. With a volunteer's badge on a blue lanyard.
Not the badge he leaves the house with. That one expired in the December and he has kept it clipped to his jacket for eleven months so that I would see it going out of the door.
What happened in the March of 2024.
I am not going to set it out, because it is not mine and because there is a family in Ardmere who did not consent to being in anybody's story.
What I can say is that there was an operation on the ninth of March, 2024, that a patient died, that there was an investigation, that it took eight months, and that the finding in the October of 2024 was that there was no misconduct.
No misconduct. Cleared.
And he resigned six weeks later.
Dev has told me — and he is the only person who has told me anything plainly — that about a third of the people it happens to never go back, and that being cleared is sometimes the part that finishes them, because after that there is nobody left to blame.
