Updates on Tuesday 19 January , 2016
Mr Justice Peter Jackson said it could not be proved if either of the parents caused the injuries.
But he said: "The parents failed to obtain medical care for P in relation to a serious injury that they either knew or ought to have known she had suffered."
Responding to the latest judgement on the death of Poppi Worthington, a Cumbria Police spokesman said: "The Constabulary are fully aware of Mr Justice Jackson's criticisms of the initial investigation and have assessed these.
"One officer was suspended and has since retired, another two were moved into different roles.
"One of the officers is currently undergoing performance proceedings and the second officer has been dealt with by management action.
"The Constabulary will support any future inquest or hearing into this death and have cooperated fully with the IPCC investigation.
"Whilst performance proceedings are active and an inquest is to be held we are unable to comment any further."
The catalogue of failures to properly investigate the death of Poppi Worthington can be reported for the first time today.
Mr Justice Peter Jackson said failures by police included, external:
There will now be a new inquest into the death of Poppi Worthington.
A divisional court hearing last July said an earlier inquest was invalid because the then coroner, Ian Smith, effectively took all the evidence in private.
This was because he felt he couldn't refer to the findings of Mr Justice Jackson in 2014, external, which were covered by reporting restrictions.
Mr Smith then left part of his conclusion, about the cause of her death, blank.
Today Mr Justice Jackson said a new inquest should take place, and should be allowed to make reference to his findings.
He said: "The ongoing reporting restriction order should not cause difficulty for the conduct of the inquest, but this court will offer any co-operation that it can to ensure that this is so."
A judge has called for an independent review of a sub-group of Cumbria's Local Safeguarding Children Board after it appeared to breach regulations over its failure to investigate the death of Poppi Worthington.
However Mr Justice Peter Jackson's judgement said this appeared to "conflict with the regulations".
A meeting on the day 13-month-old Poppi Worthington died was told there could be other explanations other than assault for her injuries, it can now be reported.
In 2014, external, Mr Justice Peter Jackson said this was "wholly inaccurate, was not based on any medical evidence ... however it was accepted as fact without challenge and must have influenced many of the decisions that followed".
The council decided to wait until the result of a police investigation before deciding what action to take with regard to other children in the family - a 10-month delay.
Today the council repeated a statement made last year, that it fully accepted the judge's criticism that it should have acted sooner.
The judgement made this morning in the case of Poppi Worthington, external says a senior police officer, identified as DCI F, refused to allow further tests of samples taken at a post-mortem examination when a pathologist said she though an assault had taken place.
DCI F is understood to refer to Det Ch Insp Mike Forrester. He has also been criticised for not visiting the family home to take charge of the investigation.
Mr Justice Peter Jackson said no real police investigation had taken place.
Mr Forrester (pictured) has since conceded there were things he might have done differently.
Cumbria Police says it is waiting for the findings of an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
The judge made a number of criticisms of Poppi's father Paul Worthington as he ruled he did sexually abuse his daughter before her death.
Mr Justice Peter Jackson said in his judgement, external:
Quote MessageI cannot accept his evidence about the events surrounding P's collapse. I was not impressed by his account. His description of being woken by a cry and then removing P from her cot in a most unusual condition (clenched teeth, rigid body) before loosening her nappy and leaving her on the bed was puzzling.
Quote MessageIt is hard to understand why he should have loosened her nappy or why, having gone downstairs to get another nappy, he should have begun to go back to sleep without changing P while leaving her on the bed.
Quote MessageThere is also no explanation as to why he would then have reached out to touch P, when his whole object would on his account have been to keep her asleep as long as possible. Moreover, in the overall circumstances, the fact that this was the only occasion (according to the father) when he and P were in the bed together raises concern when taken together with the fact that P suffered injury on that very occasion.
Quote MessageOverall, the sequence of events that the father describes is unconvincing as an account of a parent comforting a distressed child in normal circumstances."
A High Court judge has ruled that the Barrow toddler Poppi Worthington was sexually abused before her death.
The hearings in Liverpool last year heard several pathologists question the original findings by the Home Office pathologist Dr Alison Armour (pictured below) that Poppi had been assaulted just before she died.
Mr Justice Peter Jackson said, in a lengthy judgement, external, that although pathologists had disputed the interpretation of evidence from the post mortem examination, the assertion that the 13-month-old girl's symptoms had been caused by a viral infection "had vanished like frost in May".
The judge said his conclusion remained that Poppi had suffered a penetrative assault by her father, Paul Worthington.
He said it wasn't possible to reconstruct the exact sequence of events leading to Poppi's collapse shortly afterwards without a truthful account from her father. Mr Worthington has always denied abusing the child.
Here are the key dates of the long-running investigation into the death of Poppi Worthington.
Image source, Family photoPoppi Worthington's father, Paul Worthington, is heavily criticised in the judges report, external for carrying out a "penetrative assault" on his daughter before her death.
Quote MessageI have observed the father, not only in the witness box but in the courtroom. In contrast to the mother, who became emotional at understandable points during the hearing, the father's presentation was unusual. He spent large parts of each day in tears and took every opportunity to make eye contact with me from the back of the court as a way of emphasising his predicament. I do not attach much significance to this behaviour during an undoubtedly emotional hearing, but it was nonetheless unusual in my experience.
Mr Justice Peter Jackson, High Court judge
No-one has ever been charged over Poppi's death, although both parents were questioned by police.
In March last year Cumbria Police said no further action would be taken.
The initial police investigation is being examined by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
The death of Poppi Worthington in Barrow in 2012 saw both Cumbria Police and the county council face serious criticism for the way they handled the case.
Mr Justice Peter Jackson condemned Cumbria Police for conducting "no real investigation" into Poppi's death for nine months; while the county council was criticised for failing to act quickly enough to protect her siblings.
The father of a 13-month-old Barrow girl sexually assaulted her before she died, a judge has ruled.
Poppi Worthington died in December 2012. An inquest found the cause of her death was "unascertained".
The full judgement can be read here, external.
A petition expressing anger at plans to increase parking charges in Keswick has been handed to Allerdale Council, with nearly 4,000 signatures on it.
Under proposals being considered by councillors, external, charges for long-stay car parks in Keswick would increase - but fees for the town's short-stay car parks would go down. Charges in Maryport would be scrapped altogether.
Image source, GoogleThe petition has been organised by the Theatre by the Lake, the Keswick Retailers Association and Lake District Hotels, who say it would damage the local economy. Allerdale Council says the new charges would still be good value - and similar to other parts of the country
An inquest into the deaths of two people killed when a fireworks store caught fire will today hear from the man who booked a display for his wedding.
Image source, Anthony MiddletonAndrew Coates, 41, and his assistant, 46-year-old Polly Connor, were preparing for the display in the grounds of a garden near Windermere when the fireworks caught fire with a series of explosions.
Their bodies were found in the burned-out store.
The display at Larch Cottage on the shore of Windermere was to celebrate the wedding of John Simpson and Nicole Rothwell.
Mr Simpson and Mr Coates ran a business together, Stardust Fireworks, and held a licence to hold displays there.
Two home care services in Cumbria have been rated "good" by inspectors from the Care Quality Commission.
The Wedgwood Road, external and Moss Bay House, external services, which are run by national disability charity Walsingham Support, were inspected last September
A project run by the people of the Rusland valley on the southern edge of the Lake District has won a £1.3m lottery grant to restore the woodlands that surround them.
Image source, Colin BarrColin Barr, chairman of the partnership, said: “It will give us the opportunity to revitalise many of the traditional woodland industries in the scheme area, as well as providing wonderful opportunities for training and enjoyable learning."
Image source, Getty ImagesStan & Ollie, written by Jeff Pope - who worked with Coogan on Oscar-nominated Philomena - tells the story of their final tour in 1953.
Head of BBC Films Christine Langan said Coogan and Reilly were "dream casting" to portray the "genius creative marriage" of the pair
Engineers are due to start building a temporary bypass at the part of the A591 which collapsed during December's severe weather.
The buses will have to use a single-track road on the western side of Thirlmere because the main road was also damaged by landslides.
Keith Little is the county councillor responsible for highways and transport. He told BBC Radio Cumbria this morning the limitations of the route meant they were still thinking how the service might run.
Quote Message"We're going to have take these buses round the western side of Thirlmere in a convoy process, which will take about 20 minutes to get round that section. If we can put two buses on, or run a scheduled hourly service, then that's what we'll try and do."
Keith Little, Councillor in charge of highways