Vital Signs: Bodies in the English Channel spell trouble for the stubborn doctor

A physician fuels political uproar when she sticks to her findings

When bodies of immigrants begin to wash up on a Hastings beach, no one would envy police doctor Callie Hughes' sad job of checking for vital signs or pronouncing death.

Hughes works alongside detectives DI Miller and DS Jeffries, slowly cataloguing some dozen deaths from a boat suspected to have capsized during an illegal crossing from France to England.

But one victim stands out to Hughes. Body number nine. It has several char...