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Shaken Baby Syndrome Case Collapses
At Sheffield Crown Court today (16th February 2009), another case of alleged shaken baby syndrome collapsed after the prosecution’s expert medical case based on the so called triad was discredited. The defence team led by Robert Smith Q.C., instructed by Favell, Smith & Lawson of Sheffield (junior counsel, Peter Pimm) demonstrated in the course of 10 days of expert evidence that the evidence of retinal haemorrhages in an 11 week old baby could not be shown to have occurred at the time of the acute incident.
In the result the prosecution’s independent paediatrict neurologist conceded that shaking could not be confidently established as the cause of the baby’s disability.
This is another successful result in a long series of “shaken baby” cases defended by Robert Smith Q.C.
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