2007-10-15 22:52:50 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Sally Clark (15 August 1964 – 15 March 2007)[1] was a British lawyer. She was the victim of a miscarriage of justice; her convictions in 1999 for the murder of two of her sons were quashed in 2003.
Clark's first son died suddenly within a few weeks of his birth in 1996. After her second son died in a similar manner, she was arrested in 1998 and tried for the murder of both sons. Her prosecution was controversial due to statistical evidence presented by paediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow, who testified that the chance of two children from an affluent family suffering cot death was 1 in 73 million, when in fact it was closer to 1 in 200. In an unusual intervention, the Royal Statistical Society wrote to the Lord Chancellor saying there was "no statistical basis" for Meadow's figure.
Clark was convicted in November 1999. The convictions were upheld at appeal in October 2000, but after she had served more than three years of her sentence, they were quashed in a second appeal in January 2003, and she was released from jail. Journalist Geoffrey Wansell called Clark's experience "one of the great miscarriages of justice in modern British legal history."
Clark was found dead in her home on 16 March 2007 of natural causes
2007-10-17 20:45:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
She died of "natural causes" in March of this year, after being released from prison in 2003.
Apparently, she may have drank herself to death.
2007-10-16 06:30:12 · answer #2 · answered by isaulte 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She was convicted of killing her children. imprisoned then found to be innocent and she killed herself
2007-10-16 06:30:11 · answer #3 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋