He made up the 1 in 70m thing. He knew perfectly well that he had no professional expertise in statistics and should not have given a figure that he'd worked out on the back of a fag packet. He abdicated his professional responsibility and lied to the court.
His striking off was reversed by the Court of Appeal because they held that the GMC could not strike someone off for their behaviour as an expert witness. Ridculous. He was acting in his professional capacity as a doctor. They didn't call him as a private individual, but as a doctor.
And I think hatred for him is entirely justified - he must have know he was wrong. And his other activities as an expert witness in other cases were equally reprehensible. Telling courts as a matter of fact that mothers had harmed their children without ever meeting the mothers or children in person.
The government has colluded in a cover up of the miscarriages of justice in the family courts around his evidence and those of his despicable acolytes. They were forced to review cases where children were taken and forcibly adopted. But they set up the reviews in such a way it was a foregone conclusion - they asked social services departments, the very people who had created these miscarriages of justice, to identify cases which rested on expert evidence. Oddly enough social services claimed there were only a handful of cases. That was a lie. They ignored the very first case where Roy Meadows gave evidence in the family courts about MSbP, for instance.
Even where parents have been cleared - the family courts have caused a miscarriage of justice - those in authority have shrugged their shoulders and said, so what, the children have been adopted so you can't reverse the decision. Social workers have sent children adopted under this cruel system who reach adulthood 'letters for life' perpetuating lies about their parents when the social workers know damn well the case is contested and that that their original arguments are demonstrably false. The whole system stinks and those in authority refuse to stop their attempts to villify parents. I just hope some of the children involved decide to sue.