Child death expert provided “misleading and biased” evidence, panel hears

A senior paediatric neuropathologist adopted a “preconceived and blinkered approach” when appearing as an expert witness in six “shaken baby” court cases, a fitness to practise panel heard this week.

The UK’s General Medical Council (GMC) has accused Waney Squier, who worked as a consultant at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, of acting outside her competence, failing to take account of other experts’ views, and misleadingly citing research that did not in fact support her conclusions. She denies the allegations.

Squier, 67, is also accused of providing an expert report for an appeal without disclosing that GMC …