Question: Thayne Forbes presided over the trial of which British general practitioner?
Context: John Bodkin Adams (21 January 1899 – 4 July 1983) was a British general practitioner, convicted fraudster and suspected serial killer.  Between 1946 and 1956, more than 160 of his patients died in suspicious circumstances.  Of these, 132 left him money or items in their wills.  He was tried and acquitted for the murder of one patient in 1957.  Another count of murder was withdrawn by the prosecution in what was later described as "an abuse of process" by the presiding judge Patrick Devlin, causing questions to be asked in Parliament about the prosecution's handling of events.  The trial was featured in headlines around the world and was described at the time as "one of the greatest murder trials of all time" and "murder trial of the century".  It was also described at the time as "unique" because, in the words of the judge, "the act of murder" had "to be proved by expert evidence." The Al-Sweady Inquiry was a five-year public inquiry led by Thayne Forbes which investigated accusations of mistreatment of prisoners by the British Army following the Battle of Danny Boy.  The enquiry commenced its investigations in 2009. Antony William Basil Crockett (born 1956) is a British general practitioner, hospital practitioner and medical writer.  He has interests in respiratory disease, particularly asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.  He is the medical director of Allergy Central, a private allergy clinic.  Crockett is a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Peter J P Holden (born around 1956) is doctor who works as a general practitioner in Matlock, Derbyshire.  He is a member of the Council of the British Medical Association, who was a negotiator with the General Practitioner’s Committee (GPC) for more the 15 years. Surgeon Vice-Admiral Philip Iain Raffaelli, CB, QHP, FRCP (born 24 November 1955 in Kirkcaldy, Fife) is a British general practitioner and Royal Naval Medical Officer.  Raffaelli served as Surgeon General of the British Armed Forces until 2012. The Underprivileged Area Score is an index to measure socio-economic variation across small geographical areas.  The score is an outcome of the need identified in the Acheson Committee Report (into General Practitioner (GP) services in the UK) to create an index to identify 'underprivileged areas' where there were high numbers of patients and hence pressure on general practitioner services. Louise Irvine (born 1957, full name Marie-Louise Irvine) is a British general practitioner, health campaigner, and parliamentary candidate.  She unsuccessfully stood for election in the 2015 General election and the 2017 General election for the National Health Action Party in the constituency of South West Surrey.  She came second to Jeremy Hunt in the 2017 election; reducing his majority. Sir John Thayne Forbes (born June 1938) is a retired British judge and barrister.  As a High Court judge, he presided over the trial of Harold Shipman who was convicted of 15 murders in 2000 and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment.  Shipman is now recognised as one of the most prolific serial killers in history.  He led the Al-Sweady Inquiry, a five-year public enquiry that reported in 2014. Polyclinics in England were intended to offer a greater range of services than were offered by current general practitioner (GP) practices and local health centres.  In addition to traditional GP services they would offer extended urgent care, healthy living services, community mental health services and social care, whilst being more accessible and less medicalised than hospitals.  A variety of models were proposed, ranging from networks of existing clinics to larger premises with several colocated general practitioner (GP) practices, more extensive facilities and additional services provided by allied healthcare professionals. Harold Frederick Shipman (14 January 1946 – 13 January 2004) was a British general practitioner and one of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history.  On 31 January 2000, a jury found Shipman guilty of fifteen murders for killing patients under his care.  He was sentenced to life imprisonment with the recommendation that he never be released.
Answer: Harold Frederick Shipman