A former beauty queen who ran the botched police investigation into Poppi Worthington’s death has appeared on an episode of A Place in the Sun.
Former Detective Inspector Amanda Sadler, who was the 1989 Miss Great Britain, had no experience of leading an inquiry into child death, and was not qualified to be a Senior Investigating Officer, an inquest into the toddler’s death heard last year.
Ms Sadler, who was disciplined and demoted for blunders in the murder investigation, which she led, appeared on the Channel 4 show last month, The Mail reports.
Former Miss Great Britain Amanda Sadler and her husband Gary on Channel 4 show ‘A Place in the Sun’
Mrs Sadler featured on the Channel 4 show looking to buy a new home in Mallorca
The former detective inspector appeared on the show with her champion cyclist husband Gary where they were looking to buy a new home in Mallorca.
During the hour-long show Ms Sadler revealed they had a budget of £265,000, and the couple were shown around five properties by presenter Ben Hillman.
The episode has since been removed from Channel 4’s streaming service.
A second inquest into the death of Poppi Worthington took place last December.
Poppi Worthington died in December 2012 after she collapsed at home at Barrow-in-Furness. In January 2014 a judge ruled that her father probably sexually assaulted her before her death
Detective Inspector Amanda Sadler (pictured) had no experience of leading an inquiry into child death, and was not qualified to be a Senior Investigating Officer
Medical staff at Furness General Hospital told the toddler’s inquest she had arrived in A&E with blood dribbling down her legs and could not be saved.
A family court judge ruled that Paul Worthington sexually assaulted the 13-month-old in their Barrow-in-Furness home hours before she died
But police bungles meant that the case never reached court and Worthington, who gave evidence to the inquest, remains a free man.
It heard Ms Sadler, 52, had not completed a child death course and had never read basic investigation protocol, the inquest heard.
Poppi Worthington’s father Paul – who has been accused of abusing his daughter was rushed into coroner’s court ahead of his evidence at his daughter’s inquest last year
Basic steps, laid out in ‘black and white’ in a document known as ‘Chapter 13’, were not carried out, Coroner David Roberts said.
Forensic evidence was not sent for testing for months, the bed sheets where Poppi collapsed were not collected and her body was not swabbed for evidence for five days.
DI. Amanda Sadler crowned as Miss Great Britain 1989 when she was Amanda Dyson
In particular, a laptop Mr Worthington used to watch ‘adult X-rated’ porn in bed on the night Poppi died was never recovered by Cumbria Police and there was no ‘proactive’ attempts by officers to trace it.
Former Detective Constable Lindsey Bolton was told by Mr Worthington that he no longer had the laptop he used to access pornographic material.
Mr Worthington told her he had sold the laptop to a man in Millom and he would try to get it back to hand to police for examination.
She was asked during the inquest: ‘Did that happen? Did Mr Worthington make efforts to retrieve the laptop?’
Ms Bolton replied: ‘Not to my knowledge.’
She said she informed her boss, former beauty queen Detective Inspector Sadler, about the situation before she went on leave.
Later she found out Mr Worthington had not brought the laptop in to police and no one followed the matter up.
Ms Bolton is no longer a serving police officer.
Ms Sadler admitted gross incompetence and was demoted to Sergeant, but retired in September 2016.
She told last year’s inquest said: ‘I wasn’t at that time an SIO or trained to that level. I hadn’t undergone any child death training.’
She admitted, under questioning from the Mr Roberts, that she had never read a document called ‘Chapter 13’, which lays out the protocol for investigating a child death.
Mr Roberts said: ‘Did you read it after you were given the case?’
Mrs Sadler replied: ‘I didn’t read it on the day… I’ve read it since.’
Her supervisor Detective Superintendent Mike Forrester admitted he had never heard of some of the steps laid out in the document, the inquest heard.
He was found to have a case to answer for gross misconduct but he retired aged 48 on a full pension before he disciplinary actions could be taken.
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Poppi died from the injuries sustained shortly after her father, who had been watching pornography, took her into his bed at the family home in Barrow-in-Furness, in December 2012
During the inqest consultant paediatrician Dr Osama Braima described how he fought to resuscitate Poppi for 57 minutes at Furness General Hospital before she was pronounced dead.
He noticed she was ‘pouring’ fresh blood after she died, she told the inquest.
He said: ‘I thought there was something wrong inside the child and I was not comfortable. I was suspicious.’
He alerted Children’s Services and examined her body again five hours later at 11am in the children’s ward.
He said Poppi was still bleeding fresh blood, which he found to be ‘unusual’.
The doctor said Poppi’s death was unexplained and it has played on his mind.
‘It has stuck with me as quite significant,’ he said. I have never seen an incident of this kind to any child in my career.’
Poppi Worthington’s father Paul Worthington leaves Liverpool Civil and Family Courts after a hearing into the death of the 13-month-old in December 2012
Flowers laid at Poppi’s grave. An Independent Police Complaints Commission report in March 2017 concluded that senior detectives probing Poppi’s death were ‘unstructured and disorganised’
A court drawing of Paul Worthington, 49, who sobbed when he was asked if he abused his daughter but refused to say at her inquest