A FRESH inquest into the suspicious death of a baby girl from Barrow is set to take place between May and June this year, following an eight-month postponement.
Senior coroner for Cumbria David Roberts will now conduct the formal hearing into the tragic death of Poppi Iris Worthington between May 15 and June 8 at County Hall in Kendal.
The inquest had been due to take place over the course of three weeks in October last year.
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But it was called off with just days to go to allow experts within the Crown Prosecution Service to re-examine their decision not to bring forward criminal charges in the 13-month-old's case.
Poppi was found collapsed and injured at her home in Barrow in the early hours of the morning on December 12, 2012.
She died at Furness General Hospital a short while later.
In January last year, High Court Judge Mr Justice Jackson ruled the little girl had suffered a serious sexual assault at the hands of her father, 48-year-old supermarket worker Paul Worthington, in the moments before her death.
No-one has ever been brought to book over the death following a botched investigation by Cumbria Police.
Mr Worthington denies any wrongdoing in relation to his daughter.
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