David Marshall QPM, Former Detective Chief Inspector, Metropolitan Police
David Marshall QPM MSc recently retired from the Metropolitan Police with over 30 year's service, including postings on the International and Organised Crime Branch and Paedophile Unit at New Scotland Yard. For the last nine years as DCI he was head of the Specialist Crime Directorates Child Abuse Investigation Command's major investigation team responsible for the investigation of complex abuse, child homicides and suspicious deaths in London. In this position he had experience of over fifty child homicides and suspicious deaths. He regularly lectures on the NPIA Investigating Sudden Childhood Death Programme, is a faculty member on the University of Warwick Advanced Course in the Management of Unexpected Childhood Death and was a UK representative on the Interpol Specialist Group on Crimes against Children. He has contributed to national police guidance, written a number of published articles and presented on numerous conferences and courses in the UK and abroad.
Contributors:
Russell J Wate QPM, a Director of RJW Associates Ltd and former Head of Investigations Directorate for the Cambridgeshire Constabulary, UK
Professor Tony Risdon, Consultant Histopathologist, Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK
Dr Martin Weber, Consultant in Paediatric Pathology, Department of Histopathology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK
Dr Lizzy Dierckx, Consultant Community Paediatrician and Lead for the Rapid Response Team investigating Sudden Unexpected Child Death, Greater Manchester, UK
Nadine Tilbury, Former Senior Crown Prosecutor and Senior Policy Advisor for the CPS and CPS Policy lead on Safeguarding Children
Tony Osborne, NPIA's National Advisor for Suspicious Missing Person Cases
Chloe Hawkins, Adviser for the National Injuries Database
Professor Neil Sebire, Professor of Paediatric Pathology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
