Sally Clarke has died....

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

Oh God, there is so much I want to say but won't. This is just SO tragic. I know that British justice is supposed to be the best in the world, but sometimes it makes me so ashamed.

Don't know what to say. How unbearably awful.

Awful and really tragic.

Elenya Tuesday it should read "farcical sham of an excuse for a so-called paediatrician"
imho

Peachy you're so right. SIDS fundraising/awareness was my second thought on reading this.
I think however she actually died, she was 'killed' IFSWIM....

I think British justice is a lot better than in lots of places and these bad cases help to illustrate how it generally doesn't do things too badly. Someone from the Times writing today said she was with SC for 2 days when her autobiography came out and it was so hard for her even to leave the house because of everyone knowing.

What gets me about Roy Dr Evil Meadows is that he had the flaming cheek to appeal against being struck off. And the bastard Court of Appeal found in his favour, arguing that the GMC couldn't strike anyone off for their behaviour as an expert witness!

And that the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health launched a massive 'woe is us' publicity campaign, going on news programmes to attack the parents protesting against miscarriages of justice, claiming it would discourage paediatricians from taking part in child protection work. Bleating 'we are the victims, not the poor parents and children whose lives have been ruined'. Disgusting.

In that case posting he is allegedly evil is probably defamatory so I'd be careful what is said actually.

I'd like to see him contend in front of a court and the world's media that he is not 'evil' as most value systems conceive it. He'd have his work cut out.

Arrogant prick.

I thought he had been allowed to practise again?

Haven't been able to stop thinking about this since last night. Have just read the Times reports. It is so sad. Poor family, poor poor little boy.
As for Meadows and co., words fail me.

Practising again?

Even if you could trust him after what he has testified to, he's well into his seventies!

I know berolina, it kept me awake last night . I can't imagine how much pain she must have been in. I try not to believe in hatred - horrible corrosive emotion - but it's hard not to hate the person whose pure stupid arrogance precipitated so much more misery on a family that had already faced so much grief.

I am very sorry for SC and her family but if you lot believe you're innocent until proven guilty and the court of appeal said he hadn't done anything wrong or whatever how can you also maintain he's guilty if you see what I mean? It seems an unsustainable position. Presumably he thought he was doing his best - he's not someone who deliberately decided to poison 100 children. Anyway I didn't really follow all the case and evidence so you may know things about it that I don't.

The other interesting one was the Orkney and other areas child abuse allegations/miscarriages of justice. That simple so called test to determine if a child had been abused which social workers in good faith adopted but was found to be wrong. Dreadful consequences. Oh dear. I hate these types of things.

Oh don't, Blu, I'm sad enough as it is.

This is so, so sad, especially for her surviving child. If I'm honest though, I think I probably feel more anger than anything else. If I were her I think that bitterness would have killed me not to mention grief.

Corkgirl. Enough.

corkgirl, I haven't heard those allegations before, and I am saddened that you feel they need to be aired at this time.

x post whilst I rewrote my post time and time again.

He was only called to give his 'evidence' because he was asked to. By the gun-ho british justice system. I dont much care for the man, and he certainly isnt 'blameless' in all of this, but, he was asked to testify at all this cases, by our Very Own British justice system.

There are very many issues with this whole thing. The bandwaggoning by the CPO when 'expert' evidence goes in their favour is scary.

I feel for the Clarke family. They have been ruined by this. Only Tripti Patel and Angela Canning and their families can possibly have known how Sally felt. So terribly sad