Britain: A British mother who spent six years in jail for murder after her two infant children died was freed yesterday by London's Appeal Court, which quashed her guilty verdict.
Donna Anthony ( 31) was one of several mothers who spent years in jail on the testimony of a now discredited doctor, Sir Roy Meadow, who appeared as an expert and argued that more than one unexplained infant death in a family must be murder.
New research has shown natural causes can explain the death of a second child in a family where one child has already died, discrediting Meadow's "lightning doesn't strike twice" theory. - (Reuters)