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- Senior Coroner Jacqueline Devonish opened an inquest into Dr Mark Deakin’s death.
- Deakin, 53, was dismissed from Alder Hey Children’s Hospital for gross misconduct on 23 June.
- He was found collapsed in his car on 24 June and died on 3 July.
- Coroner’s officer Amanda Edgar said the inquest proceeds because circumstances appear unnatural.
- Deakin exchanged 1,355 Facebook messages with Lucy Letby in 2016, then testified behind a screen at her trial.
