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Lightning does strike twice. Sally Clark: A miscarriage of justice On the 29th January 2003, after spending four years in prison, Sally Clark walked free from the Court of Appeal in London after three judges ruled her convictions were unsafe. On the 9th November 1999 she had been found guilty by a 10-2 majority and convicted of the murder of her two children. She was accused of killing her 11-week-old son Christopher in December 1996 and eight-week-old Harry in January 1998. Throughout proceedings, she had protested her innocence. This essay will ask just what went wrong with the judicial process, questioning the use of statistical evidence and how did the defence team surmount the overwhelming obstacles that stood between Sally Clark and freedom? It will also raise questions about a jury's place in cases where the evidence is of a highly complex medical nature. According to Ray Hill, Professor of Mathematics at Salford University,...

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