Suzanne Holdsworth - serving life for the murder of a two year old - has had her conviction quashed by the High Court.

Anyone who looks at pictures of the child can see that there was something wrong with it.

As you say ITK and, yet again, they cowardly demand a retrial - quite unnecessary and terribly unfair.
The British justice system is terminally broken. It simply doesn't work.

Only the simple minded tabloid headline morons think it is fair.

So they have decided to let the poor woman out on bail. Sense at last.

Have you any idea how hard it is to prepare a defence when you're locked up?
If she must suffer a pointless retrial, at least allow her the freedom to find vital evidence.

It's why I was unable to discover evidence in my New York apartment that I was in the USA when one of the wrongful conviction crimes was meant to have taken place in London.

After I was released it still took months and friends going over there bringing back bags of paper before I found what I needed.

I met dozens of innocent inmates in prison who suffered from this.

Do the public care? No way - the vast majority just like believing the system is fair. It's so much easier on the consciences.

I don't agree with a lot of ITK's posts (I like the Royal Family, for example) but he's spot n about this.
How on earth they can have convicted the poor woman after seeing the photos of that little boy and his clearly seriously drooping eye.

I know nothing about medicine but even I would have gone "something is wrong here".

In The Know wrote:
Suzanne Holdsworth - serving life for the murder of a two year old - has had her conviction quashed by the High Court.

Anyone who looks at pictures of the child can see that there was something wrong with it.

I've looked into this case a bit because my own son has a congenital brain condition and it worries me that both my wife and myself could be implicated if God forbid something happens to him overnight, even more so because recently he has had some neurosurgery - I believe that the lad's eye was about to be operated on and an attempt to fix before he died.

From BBC News:
Henry Blaxland QC, for Ms Holdsworth, said doctors at her trial had "failed to diagnose" that Kyle had a "highly unusual brain"

If thats true then thats a major failure of the NHS system given what I know about my own son. Ultrasound and MRI scans are excellent at showing Neurologists just what is going on inside the brain and indeed what parts are working well and not working well at all. My son's eyes are not "right" due to the eye muscles not being controlled well by his brain, but I simply cannot believe that a GP had not referred Kyle to a consultant at least.

Again from the BBC:

The court heard that Kyle suffered an eye injury in 2003 after he fell from a buggy while he was being looked after by his mother.

Dr Squier told the BBC that Kyle's brain had two separate abnormalities, a congenital brain condition that can cause fits and the eye socket injury.

She said: "The brain had started to push down through that fracture into the eye socket and displacing the eye. The brain was scarred.

"So Kyle in fact had two abnormalities in his brain that would predispose him to having seizures. And seizures can kill."

Steve,

Its been widely reported that the police were well aware of the brain injury but chose to ignore this - in fact did not even interview the 2 doctors who had performed the surgery (even though they were both on stand-by to give evidence).

A clear case of "looking for the evidence that backs your chosen verdict" ?

In The Know wrote:
Steve,

Its been widely reported that the police were well aware of the brain injury but chose to ignore this - in fact did not even interview the 2 doctors who had performed the surgery (even though they were both on stand-by to give evidence).

A clear case of "looking for the evidence that backs your chosen verdict" ?

As JK says in his film - they were only looking for a conviction. Truth, innocence, the Police were not interested. And the memory of this gorgeous little boy is strained because of all this.
(I'm sure you can appreciate this sort of story hits home to me given my own situation, sorry JK.)