AS COURTROOM dramas go, Angela Cannings’s appeal hearing in London takes some beating. Last month, she was exonerated of killing two of her babies. Last week, after judges gave their reasons for freeing her, the government ordered reviews of 258 similar cases, and ministers plan to check thousands of cases in which children have been removed from their families because of suspected abuse. Why? They fear the scientific evidence in these cases was worthless.
Cannings is the third mother in two years to walk free after being accused of killing more than one of her babies. The prosecution in each…
