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Meadow Sir Roy was speaking during his defence case to the GMC A
cot death expert has admitted his use of statistics at the 1999
trial of Sally Clark for the murder of two of her children was
"insensitive".  However, Professor Sir Roy Meadow defended his
evidence and denied serious professional misconduct.  He told
the General Medical Council that he stood by his controversial
estimate of the likelihood of the two Clark children dying from
cot death.  Mrs Clark was cleared of killing her two sons Harry
and Christopher in 2003.  'Ball park figure'  Sir Roy told the
GMC that at a committal hearing for Mrs Clark, he was asked by
defence counsel about the one in 1,000 figure for sudden infant
death syndrome.  I should have thought of more appropriate odds
Professor Sir Roy Meadow  He said he did not remember where the
figure had co