Imagine you are a family doctor, you have known the patient in front of you for as long as you can remember. Sadly, you have had to tell them they have a life threatening illness. They become very distressed. Would you try and comfort them with a hug, or would you give them a hand […]

The multiple injuries of Sally Clark’s babies were detailed to the General Medical Council yesterday as a leading paediatricians defended his reputation against accusations that his evidence had led to her wrongful conviction for double murder.Professor Sir Roy Meadow, who is charged with serious professional misconduct for giving “seriously misleading and flawed” statistical evidence at […]

helped wrongly convict a mother of murdering her two sons, medical watchdogs were told yesterday.Two other mums Professor Sir Roy Meadow helped send to jail for killing their babies were at a General Medical Council hearing to confront him for the first time since they were freed.Sitting 10ft from him, Angela Cannings and Donna Anthony […]

Professor Roy Meadow, whose controversial evidence was significant in the jailing of three innocent mothers, may yet be struck off SIR ROY MEADOW, one of the most celebrated and controversial doctors of modern times, will finally stand trial on disciplinary charges tomorrow in a case of major importance for the medical and legal professions. Almost […]

Eleven years ago, former nursery nurse Dawn Reed was cleared of sex abuse charges. But, she tells Cassandra Jardine, the scars remainDawn Reed has spent many of the past 12 years in hiding – all because of false allegations of sexual abuse and claims that she led a paedophile ring. The hysteria surrounding two nursery […]

A top human-rights lawyer has called for the General Medical Council to be scrapped after it cleared a doctor who played a key role in an infamous child sex abuse scandal of any wrongdoing.Consultant paediatrician Camille de San Lazaro was involved in investigating allegations that children were sexually abused at a Newcastle nursery.She later gave […]

A consultant paediatrician who exaggerated claims of child abuse has been cleared of wrongdoing by the General Medical Council (GMC). In a 2002 libel trial, Dr Camille De San Lazaro admitted overstating the accounts of abuse, compiled for a report into a Newcastle nursery. Two nursery nurses successfully sued the authors of the report for […]

that children had been drugged by two nursery nurses falsely accused of child abuse, a disciplinary hearing heard today.The General Medical Council (GMC) heard testimony Camille De San Lazaro made during an earlier legal hearing in which she admitted making unsubstantiated allegations when helping families make compensation claims in relation to the false child sex […]

A leading expert admitted she “overstated and exaggerated” medical report accounts of sexual abuse which were later proved false in a major North-East case, a medical tribunal was told yesterday.Dr Camille De San Lazaro, a consultant paediatrician and senior lecturer at Newcastle University, appeared before the General Medical Council in Manchester to answer a charge […]

Demo as doctor fights for career By Dave Black, The Journal A group which campaigns for carers and teachers who have been falsely accused of child abuse will today stage a demonstration as a North-East doctor faces a hearing which could end her career.Dr Camille San Lazaro goes before the General Medical Council (GMC) for […]