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	Roy Meadow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roy Meadow was born in Wigan, Lancashire, the son of Samuel and Doris Meadow.
		Meadow's apparent vindication was to be short-lived: It transpired that another expert witness had failed to disclose the results of medical tests which had suggested that at least one of the Clark babies had died from the bacterial infection Staphylococcus aureus (and not from smothering as the prosecution had claimed).
		Meadow, Roy (1977) "Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: The Hinterlands of Child Abuse", The Lancet, August 13, pp.343-5, 1977.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Meadow (2411 words)

	Roy Meadow breaks his silence to tell Margarette Driscoll why cot deaths must be treated with suspicion
		Meadow and like-minded academics are accused of being part of a witch-hunt; but the tactics of their opponents are questionable, to say the least.
		The organisers of a conference in California, where Meadow spoke recently, were told, falsely, that Meadow was being investigated by one police force for perjury and by another for abusing his own grandchild (who lives in New Zealand).
		Meadow began to suspect, with no other explanation to hand, that his mother, a former nurse, was force feeding him salt via a nasal tube (years later she confessed that this was what she had done).
	www.msbp.com /Roy_Meadow.htm (1507 words)

	Sir Roy Meadow (www.whonamedit.com)
		Roy Meadow in 1977 used the term “Munchausen syndrome by proxy” to describe the perpetration of the deception in regard to the child.
		Some lawyers and scientists claim that the system's determination to protect children is leading to a reversal of the burden of proof in British courts: that mothers whose babies die in unexplained circumstances are being asked to prove their innocence in front of a jury, and that women have been wrongfully convicted of murder.
		Roy Meadow is professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds.
	www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/1084.html (642 words)

	Pacific Crest Trail
		Roy could have slept there too, but she put her tent right in the middle of the level area.
		Roy said he was leaving his right there by the camp where he had tied before we unpacked them.
		Roy was in the lead when we came up to a "Y" in the trail.
	members.tripod.com /~SWadeHorse/index-4.html (7858 words)

	Expert Testimony, Bad Evidence? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Meadow said this was proof that Karen tried to smother Peter, even though Karen says it happened when she tried to resuscitate her son.
		Meadow testified that the odds of two children dying naturally in the same family were astronomical - 73 million to one – and Clark was convicted of murder and sentenced to prison for life.
		Meadow had also told the juries the chances of even two SIDS deaths in a family were 73 million to one.
	www.truthinjustice.org /bad-expert.htm (1751 words)

	Meadow's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Meadow's Law was a precept much in use until recently in the field of child protection, specifically by those investigating cases of multiple cot or crib death — SIDS — within a single family.
		Meadow's reputation went into decline from 2003 with a series of legal reverses for his theories, and the damage was confirmed in July 2005 when he was struck off the medical register by the General Medical Council (for tendering misleading evidence).
		At the trial in 1999 of solicitor Sally Clark, accused of murdering her two sons Meadow testified that the odds against two such deaths happening naturally was 73,000,000:1, a figure which he obtained by squaring the observed ratio of births to cot-deaths in affluent non-smoking families (approximately 8,500:1).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meadow's_law (872 words)

	injusticebusters 2004 > > "Sir" Roy Meadow: Junk scientist responsible for thourands of child ...
		News that Professor Sir Roy Meadow, who is to face a General Medical Council hearing into his conduct next month, is continuing to influence medical thinking about child abuse issues has sparked outrage among families wrongly accused of killing their children on the strength of his evidence.
		Meadow's principal claim about cot deaths - that one child's death in the same family is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is murder, which became known as 'Meadow's Law' - has also been rejected by the British courts.
		Meadow was unavailable for comment last night, but his supporters have in the past accused his critics of conducting a vendetta against him.
	www.injusticebusters.com /04/Meadow_RoyUK.htm (3187 words)

	Profile
		Professor Sir Roy Meadow is one of the most influential and respected paediatricians of his generation.
		At her trial, Sir Roy said the odds of two children from such an affluent family dying of natural causes were one in 73 million.
		Sir Roy, and another expert witness, told the court the chances of two cot deaths in a case such as hers were one in a million.
	www.whale.to /a/meadow9.html (703 words)

	Roy Meadow - MSbP
		The GMC’s charge against Meadow, the first president of the Royal College of Paediatricians and the discoverer of Munchausen’s Syndrome By Proxy, was not that he got one statistic wrong in good faith, as Judge Collins believes.
		The charge against Meadow was that he loaded the evidence against the cot death mother in the dock while ignoring his duty as an expert to present the full picture, even when it was inconvenient and undermined his own evidence.
		In his expert statement for the court, written earlier, Meadow had put the double cot death chance at one in a million; but again, contrary to good expert guidance and practice, he was unable to produce the raw data on which this figure was based.
	www.portia.org /latest/meadow.html (1387 words)

	Professor Sir Roy Meadows
		In the past, establishing a motive for the alleged harming of children by parents was difficult, but with the advent of Meadow, all that became necessary was for him to diagnose MSBP in the mother.
		In the family courts, Meadow was often the only expert called to give evidence, and his evidence has been upheld by judges across the land almost without question, raising the grim possibility of serial miscarriages of justice.
		It is time to re-examine other tragic cases in which Professor Sir Roy Meadow may have been disproportionately influential, including cases of ME, because the way in which medical evidence can actually pervert the course of justice is nothing less than a scandal.
	www.meactionuk.org.uk /Professor_Sir_Roy_Meadows.htm (547 words)

	SocietyGuardian.co.uk \| Society \| Q&A: Sir Roy Meadow
		The paediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow has won his appeal against being struck off the medical register for "seriously misleading" evidence that led to Sally Clark's wrongful conviction for murdering her baby sons.
		Prof Meadow was found guilty of serious professional misconduct over his testimony in the 1999 trial of the solicitor Sally Clark, who was wrongly convicted of murdering her two baby sons, Christopher and Harry, and jailed for life.
		Prof Meadow told the jury there was a one in 73 million chance of two cot deaths occurring in the Clark family.
	society.guardian.co.uk /nhsperformance/story/0,,1512227,00.html (987 words)

	Professor Roy Meadow drama wows West End [The Rockall Times]
		Roy stumbled to the front and stood shaking, facing the rows of bored and fidgety young nippers discreetly etching their place in history on the desktop or folding their paper planes, longing for break and a chance to fly them.
		Roy presses home the point: "Don't leave it till after the number or you get into a terrible muddle and your calculation goes all up the spout," he warns them.
		The figure that Sir Roy had alighted on, known to paediatricians as the "one in eight five four four" rule, represented the actual chance of any particular family being rocked by a cot death tragedy.
	www.therockalltimes.co.uk /2005/07/04/roy-meadow-drama.html (1511 words)

	Scotsman.com News - UK - Why an expert witness is in the dock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Samuel Roy Meadow was born in June 1933, the son of a chartered accountant from Wigan, Lancashire.
		In court she savaged Sir Roy’s methodology, saying that 81 cases on which he based his outlook did not stand up to scrutiny, because he had no control group.
		During the case, evidence is given by Prof Meadow, and a small group of protesters attempt to distribute leaflets questioning his credibility.
	news.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=89252004 (2379 words)

	Judgment against leading UK paediatrician Sir Roy Meadow, could damage child protection services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Professor Meadow was found guilty of serious professional misconduct last week, by the General Medical Council's (GMC) disciplinary panel, for giving erroneous and misleading evidence in the prosecution of Mrs Clark, evidence which helped to convict her of murdering her two sons.
		The paediatrician also referred in his testimony to his much- disputed "Meadow's law" on cot deaths: "one in a family is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is murder".
		While conceding that the evidence given by Professor Meadow was not intended to mislead, the GMC ruled that his evidence was not balanced and was erroneous.
	www.news-medical.net /?id=11936 (455 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Child abuse expert struck off
		The reputation of child abuse expert Sir Roy Meadow was in tatters last night after he was struck off the medical register for evidence he gave during the Sally Clark child murders trial.
		Mrs Clark's conviction was quashed at the court of appeal in 2003 and her family yesterday said his was the third finding of serious professional misconduct against doctors involved in the case.
		Prof Meadow had told Mrs Clark's trial that there was only a one in 73m chance that both the children died from natural causes.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,,1529778,00.html (604 words)

	Roy Lund
		Roy has been fitted with a brace that he must wear whenever he is out of bed.
		Roy was squeezing with both hands, holding up two fingers (when asked) and raising his right arm over his broken shoulder without apparent pain.
		Roy will be in the ICU for several days and he will be staying in the hospital for at least a month.
	www.roylund.com (5330 words)

	Roy Meadow - Prof Sir Roy Meadow - Paediatrician - Expert Witness - Cot Death - Infant Death - Munchausen by Proxy - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Roy Meadow Professor admits he has 'no idea' where he got notorious statistic on likelihood of murder in repeated infant death, apologises for distress to mothers 07.07.05 Times, Infant Death Links
		Roy Meadow Professor Peter Fleming, leader of study from which Meadow drew statistic that 1/72m chance of double cot death, says figures were misused 24.06.05 Guardian, Expert Witness Links, Infant Death Syndrome Links
		Roy Meadow Paediatrician at centre of infant death cases accused of ignoring '25 years of evidence' and instead giving trials'seriously misleading' statistics 22.06.05 Guardian, Cot Death Links, Expert Witness Links
	www.legalday.co.uk /current/cases/roy-meadow.htm (788 words)

	Sir Roy Meadow struck off by GMC
		The committee ruled that Prof Meadow gave “erroneous” and “misleading” evidence in the trial of solicitor Sally Clark, who was found guilty in 1999 of murdering her sons Christopher and Harry, but later had her conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal in 2003.
		Prof Meadow, 72, told the jury at the Clark trial that the chance of two babies dying of SIDS in an affluent family was “one in 73 million”.
		Prof Meadow was told by the GMC that he had a duty to familiarise himself with all relevant data and published work in order to provide competent evidence.
	www.fassit.co.uk /sir_roy_meadow.htm (910 words)

	Munchausen by Proxy "Inventor" to Face Inquiry
		The cot death expert at the centre of a series of high profile cases against women accused of killing their babies is to face a professional conduct committee.
		Professor Meadow was an expert witness in the trial of Angela Cannings, whose conviction for murdering her two sons was overturned last week.
		Her lawyer, Michael Mansfield QC said that were the trial to take place now, "it is unlikely the Crown would call Professor Meadow as a witness, or, if they did, it would have to be done with a health warning attached".
	www.truthinjustice.org /meadows.htm (513 words)

	i-Newswire.com - Press Release And News Distribution - GMC'S judgement against Roy Meadow may put children at greater ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He states that trainee paediatricians are now less likely to seek a career in child protection, while those in the field may weaken their conclusions about alleged child abuse in court to avoid the aggressive and improper intrusion of the GMC into their work.
		Dr Horton adds: "The real danger of the judgment against Meadow is that, by worsening the professional conditions in which child protection services are provided, children will be put at greater risk of abuse and murder.
		The lamentable judgment against Roy Meadow is further evidence that this is so.
	i-newswire.com /pr38024.html (566 words)

	Professor Roy Meadow questions his own existence [The Rockall Times]
		Professor Sir Roy Meadow, the paediatrician catapulted to derision on the basis of his flawed "expert" evidence at the trials of Sally Clark and other mothers wrongly convicted of the murder of their babies, is to appeal in the High Court against the General Medical Council's decision to erase him from the medical register.
		In what is widely expected to become known in legal circles as the "Meadow's Defence", Sir Roy's legal team will argue that it is illogical for the GMC to apportion blame to someone who, from a statistical viewpoint, is probably somebody else.
		A spokeswoman for the Royal Statistical Society said that she was astounded by the bizarre logic behind the proposed appeal: "The probability that Sir Roy is himself is close to one.
	www.therockalltimes.co.uk /2006/02/13/meadow-appeal.html (322 words)

	A jury gives its verdict on Meadow's Law
		Particular scorn has been poured on his assertion during the trial in 1999 of solicitor Sally Clark, wrongfully convicted of killing two of her babies, that the odds of losing two of her babies to Sudden Death Infant Syndrome were one in 73 million.
		in January, and yesterday her husband Stephen said he was astonished that Sir Roy should have been chosen as the chief expert witness for the prosecution again in the Patel case.
		In this case, Sir Roy said the chance of two natural cot deaths occurring in her family was one in a million; other experts said the odds were one in 8,500.
	www.nkmr.org /english/a_jury_gives_its_verdict_on_meadows_law.htm (1002 words)

	injusticebusters 2004 > > Angela Cannings: UK mother exonerated after quack doctor's "expert testimony" ...
		The jurors may have remembered the misleading statistic that paediatrician Sir Roy Meadow quoted at Sally Clark's trial, that the likelihood of two natural cot deaths in one family was 1 in 73 million.
		The three Appeal Court judges dismissed medical expert Professor Sir Roy Meadow's "law" on cot deaths that "one in a family is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is murder".
		Meadow, Ms Anthony was found guilty of murdering her children and sentenced to life in prison.
	www.injusticebusters.com /04/Cannings_Angela.htm (4887 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Health \| Sir Roy Meadow struck off by GMC
		The chair of the GMC panel considering Sir Roy's case said it was vital the public had confidence in the experts brought before the court and that was why he had to be struck off, rather than be given a lesser penalty.
		During the trial, Sir Roy said the probability of two natural unexplained cot deaths in the family was 73 million to one.
		The panel had earlier decided Sir Roy had not meant to mislead the Clark trial, but said his evidence had done so because it "erroneously implied" two natural deaths in a family would have to be independent of one another.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/4685511.stm (792 words)

	Blog 702: Sir Roy Meadow Wins Appeal
		A court has overturned the decision by England's General Medical Council striking Sir Roy Meadow from the national medical register, according to the Guardian and other British press sources.
		The sanction had been issued because Meadow gave inaccurate and misleading expert testimony for the prosecution in the trial of a woman charged with murdering two sons who suffered crib death.
		Finding that Meadow's testimony was offered in good faith, the court held that Meadow should enjoy testimonial immunity from professional discipline.
	www.daubertontheweb.com /2006/02/sir-roy-meadow-wins-appeal.html (122 words)

	Sudden infant death & false allegations
		The leading medical journal said Sir Roy, who could be struck off if found guilty, had become a scapegoat and called for a royal commission to be set up to look into all the issues surrounding the case.
		During the Clark trial, Sir Roy said the probability of two natural unexplained cot deaths in the family was 73 million to one.
		Sir Roy also gave evidence as an expert witness in the trials of two other women, Angela Cannings and Donna Anthony, who were both freed on appeal after being convicted of murdering their children.
	www.informedchoice.info /SIDS.php (2968 words)

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