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Article: THE MOTHER OF ALL INJUSTICES?; She was vilified as a monstrous mother after a court found her two baby sons had not died of cot death, but had been murdered. Now new evidence could prove her innocence. So was the jailing of Sally Clark . . .
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 4, 2002
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Byline: GEOFFREY WANSELL
AT THE time she was one of the most hated women in the country. After all, what sort of woman murders her own two babies? While she insisted throughout the case she was innocent, the evidence seemed overwhelming.
Or did it? I was never so sure. I have believed from the very beginning that Sally Clark's conviction for the murder of Christopher, aged just 11 weeks, and Harry, aged seven weeks, was a catastrophic miscarriage of justice.
Indeed I was one of the first people to raise that possibility in print when I wrote about her case in this newspaper in March 2000 - only a matter of weeks before her first appeal was ...