Sally Clark died on friday.
This link from the BBC provides some of the the story, but the brief explanation is this; she was unlucky enough to lose two of her children, one to cot death, the other to meningitis. Although in the case of the latter the cause of death was not established until after tests, which got mislaid for a while.
She was tried and convicted of the murder of both these children on the basis of flimsy statistical evidence on the part of a so-called 'expert' and spent three years in prison for a crime she didn't commit. During this time her third child was taken away from her.
Her case went to appeal, was re-investigated and she was released, but she never recovered fully from the trauma of the experience. On friday she was found dead in her home.
Your first thought was suicide. And a lack of surprise, but considerable sadness, at this conclusion. So far the cause of death has been ruled as natural, but further tests are being made. You heard another woman, also a victim of a miscarriage of justice, tell Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 that she died of a broken heart, and remembered that there is even a medical term for it.
You've heard it described as an Aortic Aneurysm. Often suffered by the survivor of a close relationship that is brought to a crashing end by their partner's death. And in this case, you believe, by Sally Clark.
Rest In Peace Sally; your children are waiting for you.
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On the subject of miscarried justice, the three men who were wrongly convicted of the murder of paperboy Carl Bridgewater have been informed that they will be having 'living expenses' deducted from the compensation they received for their stay in jail.
Wait a minute? Living expenses?
For being wrongly imprisoned? For over a decade?
This probably explains how the A-Team started out. No wonder you frequently despair of humanity and masquerade on the internet as a drow elf.
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