Parents convicted of killing to have their cases reviewed

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7433.183

BMJ 2004;328:183 (24 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7433.183

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Parents convicted of killing to have their cases reviewed

Clare Dyer, legal correspondent

BMJ

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Major changes in England and Wales relating to the handlingof cases in which mothers are suspected of killing their babieswere announced this week by the Court of Appeal and the attorneygeneral.

Hundreds of parents convicted of killing their babies are tohave their cases urgently reviewed, said the attorney generalafter the appeal court called for an end to the prosecutionof parents when experts' opinions on the cause of death differ.

In addition, thousands of parents whose children were takenaway from them are to have their cases reopened as part of thereview, Solicitor General Harriet Harman told parliament onTuesday.

Medical science was "still at the frontiers of knowledge" aboutunexplained infant deaths, said Lord Justice Judge, the deputychief justice, giving the appeal court's reasons for its decisionlast month to quash Angela Cannings' conviction for murderingher two baby sons.

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