BMJ  2005;331:1355 (10 December), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1355-a

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Sally Clark pathologist removed from Home Office list

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Alan Williams, the forensic pathologist who failed to disclose the results of microbiology tests about Sally Clark's second son at her murder trial, was last week struck off the list of home office accredited pathologists.

A pathology disciplinary tribunal for the Home Office ruled that Dr Williams "fell short of the standards required of a Home Office accredited forensic pathologist in failing to refer in his postmortem report to the microbiological tests which he had commissioned."

Mrs Clark's conviction for killing her two baby sons, Christopher and Harry, was quashed on a second appeal in 2003 after she spent three and a half years in jail for murder. Dr Williams' failure to disclose test results which showed the presence of Staphylococcus aureus in tissue samples from Harry's body, raising the possibility that he had died from natural causes, was the main ground for allowing her appeal. Flawed statistical evidence from . . . [Full text of this article]

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