Paediatrician struck off

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Roxanne Escobales
Friday July 15, 2005

The paediatrician who gave misleading evidence that led to the wrongful murder conviction of solicitor Sally Clark was today struck off the medical register.

Professor Sir Roy Meadow, a former president of the Royal College of Paediatricians, was found guilty of serious professional misconduct by the General Medical Council (GMC). Prof Meadow, 72, can no longer practise medicine in the UK, although he is still a medical doctor and free to lecture in this capacity.

The consultant paediatrician was found to have given evidence beyond his expertise at Mrs Clark's trial.

In its verdict, the GMC panel stated: "You owed a duty to identify relevant matters (including assumptions) on which your statistical evidence was based. You failed in this duty. You should have refrained from giving expert evidence upon matters beyond your competence, but this again, you failed to do."

http://society.guardian.co.uk/nhsperformance/story/0,8150,1529545,00.html

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1. Spooky biz: when the london bus bomb blew up last Thursday

it was right outside the General Medical Council buidling in London where this hearing was taking place.

BBC TV showed footage of the the blood-splashed external walls of the building........