Friday, April 27, 2012

Bulletin: Rohan Wray and Chana Al-Alas: ‘We were viewed as guilty at the outset’: United with daughter after baby death ordeal; Tribune;

STORY: "'We were viewed guilty at the outset': Couple united with daughter after baby death ordeal," by Andrew Johnson, published in the Daily Mail on April 27, 2012.

GIST: "POLICE, social services and the health service will need to work more closely together and share information in order to avoid putting another couple through the ordeal faced by Rohan Wray and Chana Al-Alas, who were wrongly accused of murdering their baby and then had to fight to gain custody of their other child. That is the likely finding of a review carried out in the aftermath of the case after Mr Wray, 22, and his partner, Miss Al-Alas, 19, who live in Islington, were finally reunited with their daughter last week.".........The couple spoke this week of their heartache at having their daughter taken from them immediately after she was born because they faced unfounded charges of murder following the death of their eldest child. Not only that, after going through the ordeal of a six-week Old Bailey trial – they were cleared in November last year – the couple then had to refight the case because Islington Council refused to hand their daughter, Jayda, back to them. In a rare move, Mrs Justice Theis, who heard the case at the Family Divisional Court at the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand, released her judgment last Thursday and named all the parties involved so the couple could “sing their innocence from the rooftops”."
THE ENTIRE STORY CAN BE FOUND AT:

http://www.islingtontribune.com/news/2012/apr/%E2%80%98we-were-viewed-guilty-outset%E2%80%99-couple-united-daughter-after-baby-death-ordeal

PUBLISHER'S NOTE:

I am monitoring this case. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments.

The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at:
http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith

Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at:

http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html

Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com

Harold Levy: Publisher; The Charles Smith Blog.