The retired consultant paediatrician Roy Meadow gave “misleading and flawed” evidence in the trial of Sally Clark, a mother accused of murdering her two baby sons, the General Medical Council heard this week.

Robert Seabrook QC, for the GMC, said Professor Meadow had breached his duties as a medical expert witness and “misused” statistics and research in his evidence to the jury at the 1999 trial of Mrs Clark, a solicitor, whose conviction was overturned on her second appeal in 2003. Professor Meadow, 72, denies serious professional misconduct.

Mr Seabrook QC …