Angela Cannings

Her conviction was based on claims that she had smothered the children, but was overturned as unsafe by the Court of Appeal on 10 December 2003.

[1] Cannings was convicted after the testimony of Professor Sir Roy Meadow, a paediatrician who was later struck off, then reinstated, by the General Medical Council.

Professor Michael Patton, a clinical geneticist at St George's Hospital Medical School, told the BBC that a genetic inheritance was the most likely explanation for the crib deaths in the family.

[4] Expert witness Professor Sir Roy Meadow was later struck off the General Medical Council register partly as a result of his evidence at the Cannings trial.

Meadow was later reinstated to the GMC on appeal, a judge ruling that his errors did not amount to serious professional misconduct.