Against All Odds: A mother's fight to prove her innocence: The Angela Cannings Story

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Angela Cannings walked free from the appeal court in London yesterday saying it was the end of a four-year nightmare. The 40-year-old had served 20 months of a life sentence after being found guilty of smothering two of her babies - seven-week-old Jason in 1991 and 18-week-old Matthew in 1999. The Crown cannot divorce itself so easily from the source and the consequences of the evidence that caused such a disturbing miscarriage of justice, a grieving mother convicted of the murder of her own children. a b Watkins, S. J (2000). "Conviction by mathematical error?". BMJ. 320 (7226): 2–3. doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.2. PMC 1117305. PMID 10617504.

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Horton, Richard (2–8 July 2005). "In defence of Roy Meadow". The Lancet. 366 (9479): 3–5. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)66798-0. PMID 15993209. S2CID 41571852. The appeal was heard in December 2003 and the Court of Appeal declared the original conviction unsafe and allowed Cannings' appeal. The issue of how investigations and prosecutions of unexplained deaths of infants are conducted came under the spotlight with the acquittal on appeal of solicitor Sally Clark.

Gemma Cannings (left) and Jason Cannings (right), two of Angela Cannings' children that died at an early age from cot death In December 1999, the Court of Appeal quashed the conviction and declared that all three were the victims of 'regular and condoned police malpractice'. Meadow's 73,000,000:1 statistic was paraded in the popular press [18] [19] and received criticism from professional statisticians over its calculation. The Royal Statistical Society issued a press release stating that the figure had "no statistical basis", and that the case was "one example of a medical expert witness making a serious statistical error." [20] The Society's president, Professor Peter Green, later wrote an open letter of complaint to the Lord Chancellor about these concerns. [21] Donna Anthony, of Yeovil, Somerset, was 25 when she was given two life sentences in 1998 for murdering her daughter and son.

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Meadow, R (1993). "Non-accidental salt poisoning". Archives of Disease in Childhood. 68 (4): 448–52. doi: 10.1136/adc.68.4.448. PMC 1029261. PMID 8503665. In interviews for BBC Radio 4's File on 4 programme, [44] Professor Jean Golding and Professor Ashley Grossman both questioned the reliability of the Meadow paper. The naturally occurring condition diabetes insipidus was suggested as a more likely cause of an elevated salt level than deliberate salt poisoning. Donna Anthony is wrongly jailed for life at Bristol crown court for murdering her 11-month-old daughter, Jordan, and four-month-old son, Michael, after Professor Meadow and another expert tell the court that the chances of two cot deaths in a case like hers were one in 1 million. Blakemore-Brown, Lisa. "Sir Roy Meadow removes himself from the General Medical Council Register". Archived from the original on 5 February 2015. However, Sir Roy is most renowned for an observation in a book that became universally known as "Meadow's Law".The famous faces in Marks & Spencer's Christmas advert including a West End legend, a TV star and a pop icon As far as Professor Meadows's evidence is concerned, it was totally discredited by the Court of Appeal as 'manifestly wrong' and 'grossly misleading'.

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We see this as an absolutely classic example of how research in this field is constant and the door never seems to be closed to new views on what may or may not cause cot death."Earlier this week the Home Office decided that Angela Cannings is not entitled to compensation for the 18 months she spent in prison, convicted for the murder of her two children, seven-week-old Jason in 1991 and 18-week-old Matthew in 1999. She has always maintained that they died of natural causes. I thank my hon. Friend for her contribution. She is one example of too many women who have suffered the loss of a child and I know that she still feels it keenly to this day. She has, however, proved to be an excellent mother and grandmother, and we The case for the Crown rested entirely upon his 'expert' opinion that the chances of two babies dying naturally within the same family were 73 million to one, a claim since shown to have no validity at all.