BMJ  2004;329:366 (14 August), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7462.366-a

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Southall is barred for three years from child protection work

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A leading paediatrician, Professor David Southall, was last week barred by the General Medical Council from undertaking child protection work for three years. The GMC found him guilty of professional misconduct after he accused a father of murdering his children without having collected any evidence.

Professor Southall had accused Stephen Clark of murdering his two sons in April 2000, on the basis of an interview with Mr Clark that he watched on the Channel 4 documentary Dispatches. In the interview Mr Clark described a nosebleed that his son Christopher had had in a London hotel in 1996. Christopher died at home nine days after the hotel incident.

At the time of the Dispatches broadcast, Mr Clark's wife, Sally, was in prison, wrongly convicted of the murder of Christopher and his younger brother Harry. Mr Clark was then campaigning on her behalf and appeared on Dispatches in an effort to . . . [Full text of this article]

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