Sally Clarke has died....

[ZZMum]

Poor poor woman... how awful for her family after all they went thru...

Cod, she went to the same school as us didn't she?

And Roy Meadows got struck off, big deal. It's so sad.

well she was an alcoholic who drank heavily during her pregnancies so I presume het health was'nt very good

Was it suicide or did she die "naturally"?

she was only 42. What a terrible thing to happen. Poor poor family.

I thought that the alcoholism was linked with her grief? and it really isn't the point now anyway - she still died too young after a huge injustice

If she drank through her pregnancies (I haven't read her book so don't know) then I suppose it's hard to get out of alcoholism whatveer the circumstances but it usually doesn't kill you. It can be linked to depression. It says in today's Times that as a convicted child killer you are the lowest of the low in prison and treated worse than just about anyone. How awful for her son to regain his mother and then lose her again.

she was dismissed from one job coming to work drunk while pregnant

This is all very sad, why cant we just leave her memory in peace and not drag up her other 'problems ' she may have had.

I am at your comments. please let her rest in peace, she has suffered more than most of us can imagine

Flipping heck, I'd drink too if I'd had a tenth of her problems. So what? Poor poor woman,and her poor family.

Give it a rest corkgirl

The CPS are just as much at fault as Roy-evil-Meadows in my opinion as they failed to provide full disclosure to Sally's defence team regarding the infection that one of her babies had.

I hope they can live with themselves because I couldn't - probably just focussing on a "win" in court.

This is such a crap crap ending

I have read her book. I would probably turn to drink if one of my children had died.

Dreadful. So sad. And she probably only got released because she was middle class and had people good lobbying for her but one good side effect is others have been released in consequence.

They just released that couple who had been convicted of killing their adopted child by salt poisoning too. I hate those types of cases. They're so upsetting.

What a tradegy. Xenia, stress can be a factor in death. One of my colleagues was suffering from work related stress and ended up having a heart attack the day after having a big falling out with one of his staff, luckily thanks to the wonderful paramedics who attended him, they saved his life and he is now recovering at home. He had been suffering from high BP and was under treatment by his GP who had urged him to talk to his boss about getting some of his duties lifted of him and they didn't.
That poor poor woman though. Feel so sad for her hubby who stood by her and her little son who must be so heart broken at losing his mum.
Roy Meadows was struck off, as far as I know but has NEVER shown any remorse for wrecking Sally's (other women's) lives. He should had been put away for perverting the course of justice the evil man.

Roy Meadows was struck off but reinstated on appeal.

It says in the press that Roy Meadow took the decision to have him struck off to the Court of Appeal and it was overturned, as was the conviction of serious professional misconduct. Wonder how he feels today.

lilybubble - if he had any sort of compassion or empathy, he would not have given the false evidence that he did.

I woudl guess that he feel vindicated . people who are as closed minded as him cant tell teh difference between cause and effect

devastating news for her family, compounding the awful events that had no doubt takent heir toll on her.
Gutting for them.

i agree totally with those who mention the changes in her before and after prison. i always remember being truly shocked at seeing her on tv on her release, I have never seen someone so altered. She could have been a different human being competely. Agree she looked haunted, and it's not easy to forget that face.

I'm thinking of her surviving child, what an awful start to life he has had.

The Guardian today refer to Meadows as "the controversial paediatrician" - surely that should read "discredited"? Of course Meadows is not the only guilty party. There was also Alan Williams, the pathologist who withheld the information that the first baby had an infection, and David Southall, who accused Stephen Clarke of killing the babies on the basis of a TV programme!! What a bunch of bstrds......
I don't know what's come over me - I'm so angry about this.

We obviously had the police involved following the death of our daughter.

I cannot imagine the sheer hell, on top of the total misery of losing a much loved child, of having to cope with presumed guilt and the justice system.

How utterly tragic for her surviving child - and of course her husband.

In theory there's presumed innocence not presumed guilt although I bet it looks the other way around and most murders are by close family members in general so sadly the police have to look into that. It must be so hard to do these types of cases. Many parents do kill their children but even if they do I am not sure prison is the right way to deal with them at all.

True about heart attacks and stress. I wasn't right to say you never die of "stress". You get people being mugged, run away, not very fit heart attack etc because of the pressure and stress. I meant the stress can cause something else and it's the something else that kills you.

Did she recover damages or is that still on going?

I said "presumed guilt" intentionally. If she was initially presumed to have been innocent, there would have been an investigation (as in our case and as in the case of all unexplained infant deaths) but no arrest/indictment/court case/prison.

This is very sad . I feel for her family, her husband and father worked so hard to clear her name and now her surviving child is left without a mother.