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Paediatrician in Sally Clark 'baby murder' case overturns ban on practising as a doctor
Last updated at 00:52am on 24.04.08
Appeal success: Dr David Southall (file photo)
David Southall was found guilty in December of serious professional misconduct.
He was found to have abused his position by wrongly accusing a grieving mother of murdering her son, ten, and keeping secret files on children.
His actions were said to have added to Mandy Morris's distress.
Her son Lee hanged himself in 1996.
But a High Court judge yesterday ordered the suspension, imposed by the General Medical Council pending the outcome of his appeal against being struck off, "be set aside".
Conditions remain preventing him doing child protection work.
The GMC conceded that the suspension order was fatally flawed.
In 2004, Dr Southall was suspended from child protection work over his role in the case of Sally Clark, wrongly jailed over the death of her two sons.
He accused her husband of their murders on the basis of a TV interview.
Dr Southall said he was leaving his job at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire.
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Why would anyone let him treat their child? I would certainly refuse to have a man with that kind of reputation anywhere near my children or myself. It only takes a minute to make a false accusation which ruins lives, and David Southall has shown neither remorse nor understanding of the appalling effect his actions had on the lives of the Clark family. And that is why he is unfit to be a doctor.
- Sally R., London, UK
