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‘The hardest thing was going into a witness box and defending myself. But how do I defend myself when I don’t know why my babies died. What do I say?’
The Cannings’ case has been turned into a BBC drama, starring Timothy Spall and Sarah Lancashire, to be screened on Tuesday 22 February on BBC1 at 9pm. Which is all well and good, but, while we may have learned our lesson here, elsewhere, when medical science is unable to supply the answers for infant death, courts are still deferring to Professor Sir Roy Meadow’s dubious authority, and convicting parents of murder.
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