While the findings have been broadly welcomed, some believe that more needs to be done. Asha Goveas investigates.
New research has cast further doubt on theories that advocate the automatic presumption of parental guilt following the unexpected death of more than one baby. The study was the largest ever undertaken of families who have suffered more than one cot death.
The research follows the Attorney General's decision in the wake of the Angela Cannings judgment to review 28 of nearly 300 criminal cases of parents accused of killing their children (Children Now, 5-11 January).
It claims to further disprove Professor Sir Roy Meadow's "two deaths suspicious, three deaths murder" dictum.
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