medical evidence which said the high salt levels were natural.
Prosecutors at Nottingham Crown Court had claimed the couple had force-fed salt to the boy as a form of punishment.
But the pair’s defence team argued a rare medical condition caused Christian’s body to store toxic levels of salt.
Two years ago the couple were jailed for five years after being convicted of manslaughter.
They served 15 months of that sentence before a retrial was ordered in April last year and the couple were released on bail.
Some background to the case here. Afficionados of dodgy prosecutions of supposed child killers will be unsurprised to find the figure of Sir Roy Meadow lurking in the shadows.
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