Police launch investigation into former neurologist

DCI Neil McGuinness. Credit: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

By Jonathan McCambridge and Claudia Savage, PA

Detectives have launched an investigation into the clinical practices of a former neurologist who was at the centre of Northern Ireland’s largest recall of patients.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland’s (PSNI) Operation Begrain will probe the work of Dr Michael Watt and an appeal has been issued for former patients to come forward.