BMJ  2007;335:1009 (17 November), doi:10.1136/bmj.39398.639525.DB

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Court upholds GMC decision over Sally Clark case pathologist

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Alan Williams, the consultant pathologist whose failure to disclose the results of microbiological tests on one of Sally Clark's two baby sons led to the quashing of her murder convictions, lost his High Court appeal last week against a finding of serious professional misconduct.

Mrs Clark was convicted in 1999 of killing babies Christopher and Harry but was cleared on appeal in 2003 after spending three and a half years in prison. She died earlier this year at the age of 42. A coroner ruled this week that the cause of her death was acute alcohol intoxication.

A General Medical Council fitness to practise panel found Dr Williams, aged 58, guilty of serious professional misconduct in 2005 for not disclosing the results of tests on her second son, Harry, at or before her trial. Dr Williams was banned from doing Home Office forensic pathology or coroners' work for three years, . . . [Full text of this article]

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