"Lancet" Study Casts Further Doubt on "Meadow's Law"

From today's London Telegraph:

Most sudden deaths of a second infant in families are due to natural causes, according to medical researchers.

The largest study of families that have lost two babies unexpectedly has found that 87 per cent of the deaths were from natural causes.

The findings further undermine the opinion of Prof Sir Roy Meadow, the paediatrician whose discredited expert medical evidence has led to parents' murder convictions being overturned.

"Meadow's law", as promulgated by the professor was that, in reference to cot deaths, "one in a family is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is murder".

Research, published in The Lancet today, casts further doubt on this theory.

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