The Sally Clark story – how could this happen
If a baby is victim of a rare genetic defect which kills only one in a million persons, that is misfortune, not criminality. If that child’s parents give birth to a second child, the risk of genetic defect is already there. And it is already there for a third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh child.It is fatuous beyond belief to argue that the odds against these children dying in infancy are 1:1 million for the first baby, 1:1 billion for the second, 1:1 billion billion for the third, 1:1 billion billion billion billion for the fourth, and so on.Yet on this fatuous medical evidence murder convictions are obtained.
