Bunglie - I know it doesn't help you, but little by little the truth is dribbling out into the open - like this from the Evening Standard last week:
Fresh hope for women jailed for killing their children
SIX mothers jailed for killing their babies have been given new hope of release from prison, the Evening Standard can reveal.
The women, who have each served up to 10 years, have had their details sent to the body that examines possible miscarriages of justice to decide if the convictions could be "unsafe".
Sources say one of the cases being examined by the Criminal Cases Review Commission is that of Donna Anthony, who was jailed for life six years ago for the murders of her two children aged 11 months and four months.
All six cases - which could be sent back to the Court of Appeal - hinge on expert evidence that has been brought under scrutiny after a series of murder trials involving infant deaths.
It is the first time the commission has been able to consider the cases of parents convicted of killing a child without there being new evidence or new issues that might lead to a fresh appeal.The six applications were a result of a Court of Appeal judgment earlier this year, which quashed Angela Cannings's conviction for killing two of her children and suggested some guilty verdicts may have been based on unreliable expert evidence.
The three Appeal Court judges dismissed medical expert Professor Sir Roy Meadow's "law" on cot deaths that "one in a family is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is murder".
Sir Roy's discredited theories were the basis for the cases against two other mothers, Sally Clark and Trupti Patel, who were also later cleared.
After the Cannings judgment, Attorney General Lord Goldsmith ordered a review of 258 similar cases where a parent was convicted of killing a child under the age of two in the past 10 years.
Twenty-eight cases were identified by Lord Goldsmith, who wrote to each one to tell them they had an opportunity to apply to the CCRC to investigate whether the convictions were "unsafe".
The CCRC confirmed it is considering six cases.
Chairman Professor Graham Zellick, said: "Our main job is to review the cases of those who feel they have been wrongly convicted of criminal offences, or unfairly sentenced. We do not consider innocence or guilt, but whether there is new evidence or argument that may cast doubt on the safety of an original decision.
"The new legal ruling about infant death has allowed us for the first time to consider cases where the conviction was made on the basis of medical expert opinion."
THE CRUCIAL CASES
THE three cases of Sally Clark, Trupti Patel and Angela Cannings changed the way the courts now view baby deaths.
All had their convictions for murdering their children quashed.
Solicitor Mrs Clark (pictured on the left) was convicted of killing two of her children on Sir Roy Meadow's evidence.
But she was allowed to appeal because fresh medical evidence cast doubt on post mortem findings. It was revealed that results of some laboratory tests were not passed on by an important witness, so lawyers on both sides were unaware of their significance.
Pharmacist Trupti Patel (pictured centre) was acquitted of murdering her three babies after her trial heard "Meadow's Law" was flawed. Shop assistant Mrs Cannings, from Salisbury (pictured right) had her conviction for killing two of her children quashed.
The Appeal Court overturned a jury's verdict she smothered seven-week-old Jason in 1991 and 18-week-old Matthew in 1999.
Mrs Cannings, 40, insisted the babies were victims of cot death, as her first child, Gemma, had been at the age of 13 weeks in 1989.
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11/29/2004 06:22:00 PM EST -- EVENING STANDARD
'Every day prisoners call me a baby-killing bitch'
DONNA ANTHONY was just 22 when toddler Jordan suddenly stopped breathing in February 1996.
She had suffered respiratory attacks before, but on this occasion Ms Anthony could not revive her 11-month-old daughter, despite giving mouth-to-mouth. A postmortem proved inconclusive and the coroner ruled it was a cot death.
Then, a year later, her four-monthold son Michael, who had been released from hospital hours earlier, also stopped breathing.
Doctors restarted his heart but he had brain damage and Ms Anthony and husband Dean agreed to have his life-support system switched off.
Finally, in 1998, after a police inquiry based on little hard evidence and assisted by Sir Roy Meadow, Ms Anthony was found guilty of murdering her children and sentenced to life in prison.
The jury heard a button was found in Jordan's stomach. Sir Roy was asked if the child could have choked on it. His reply: "Accidental ingestion of foreign bodies, so common in older toddlers and children, is really rare under the age of one year." Studies have since shown youngsters of a similar age to Jordan are quite capable of picking up objects.
Sir Roy said the odds against two natural cot deaths were a million to one.
The case is given priority by the review commission. Ms Anthony, now 30 and in Durham Prison, said: "They call me a babykilling bitch every day. But I didn't kill my children - I loved them."
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I'm amazed that last case got taken seriously -whatever did they do, manage to select a jury which didn't include any parents? I bet loads of us here had babies who well able to pick things up at the age of 11 months. I know I certainly did.
As far as going public is concerned - can you find out if anyone has actaully been taken back to court for speaking out about they consider to be a miscarriage of justice? There have been so many media reports telling the stories, while not actually revealing identities, that I'm sure we'd have heard if these people were being prosecuted for it.