BMJ  2005;330:1463 (25 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1463

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GMC hears case against paediatrician in Sally Clark trial

Clare Dyer, legal correspondent

BMJ

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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 told a GMC panel in central London that no one wished to deny Professor Meadow's achievements over the course of a long career. The 20 day hearing would be concerned solely with the misuse of statistics and research.

The paediatrician Roy Meadow arrives at the GMC hearing in London

Credit: REUTERS/EDDIE KEOGH

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