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Sally Clark Dies

SAD state of affairs really, this is called justice, this case in which she was imprisoned for supposedely killing her own children............

I would have thought she has taken her own life! To have tried to bare the cross she was put through, and I personally think someone ought to be brought to book over this huge miscarriage of justice that was doled out in the very first place...... :rant:

R.I.P.
 
Tragic story, and for those of us with children, how many of us could have found ourselves in her shoes, and if we had, how would we have coped? I for one doubt I would have got as far as she has... My MIL died of a broken heart.......
 
That's what I said to Mr GG last night. I cannot even begin to imagine what it must be like to lose a child, let alone two, and then to be accused of killing them and wrongly imprisoned. I don't think I'd have the strength to carry on after all that.

Dr Meadows hasn't shown any remorse over the ladies unfairly imprisoned due to his evidence so I doubt Sally Clarks death will cause him much sadness.
 
Desperate stuff. One of the women who volunteered with Victim Support in Staffordshire, where I worked previously, lost both of her infants in the same way, the first at a few weeks and the second at several months. She and her husband went through such grief with their losses that they decided to have no more children. She offered special counselling to women who'd lost babies (with another charity), but at no time did anyone ever think she'd smothered them. Her own GP had attended the babies at her home and had signed off on SIDS for both. I would think that Sally Clark's experience and that of Angela Cannings would be enough to wreck anyone's sanity. Her poor husband and parents - what on earth can they be going through now?
 
RIP brave lady

Meadows is a cnt. he showed no remorse and showed the typical arrogance of a so called expert (quack more like)

he should blow his brains out now

but he wont...would take too many bullets to find the thing
 
A very sad story, from whatever viewpoint you look at it.

An odd remark in the Observer today, where the paper says, "the police have not ruled out suicide". This is a curious statement. Normally, when someone takes their own life, the form of words used is "police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the death". Careless reporting perhaps, or is there to be another twist in this tragic affair?
 
Sally Clark also had another son, who she obviously didn't see very often for about 3 years when she was imprisoned. She suffered horrendous torment from her fellow prisoners, although many came round eventually to realising she wasn't guilty of the crimes for which she had been found guilty. Sally's husband used so much of their money on legal fees that he had to move house whilst she was in prison. When Sally was releasd she returned to a different home, to a child she barely knew and physically looking like a completely different women. It was as if she had had a complete personality change. Bearing in mind the grief she had already suffered from losing her two, much loved babies, to then be thrown into prison, having lost the initial appeal no one could ever begin to understand what she, and her family and friends had to endure. It is absolutely heart breaking. Evidently, Sally didn't want to give any interviews, or set up any charities as is so frequent in some cases, she just wanted to try and rebuild her life, quietly away from the media spotlight. Evidently, she even went to the supermarket in disguise so people wouldn't recognise her. She desperately wanted to try and move on.

Dr Meadows and those that listened to, and believed his evidence need to take a long, hard look at this case and understand that some of them may well be responsible for a broken family, many broken hearts and now possibly the loss of this woman's life. Sally leaves behind her young son (how do you even begin to explain to him what has happened?) and a loyal husband who has lost his wife twice. This time for good. :(
 
The papers this morning are saying it wasn't suicide, but a heart attack which is being linked to heavy drinking.
 
The possible death from alcohol occurred to me as soon as I read this - I'm not sure if my memeory of her trial is accurate but wasn't one of the prosecution's key accusations against Sally Clarke that she drank heavily?

I've no idea if she drank before the sad deaths of her babies or as a result of the first one or as a side effect from post natal depression or what but it couldn't have helped her state of mind.

Whatever the facts, if she was an alcoholic, it's a disease that deserves constructive help, not a prison cell.
 
Originally posted by Gareth Flynn@Mar 18 2007, 04:05 PM
I thought this was an interesting take on the events:

http://postmanpatel.blogspot.com/2007/03/s...ubled-life.html

Apparantly evidence of her alcoholism wasn't introduced as evidence by the prosecution in return for the defence not calling any character references, but it came out immediately after the verdict.
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Not a question of in return . It simply wasn't relevant . I doubt it would have been relevant to rebut evidence of good character under the law at the time , a person's " bad character " not otherwise being admissible unless imputations were made against the prosecution witnesses .
 
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