BACKGROUND: BABY-SITTER SUZANNE HOLDSWORTH SPENT THREE YEARS IN PRISON FOR MURDERING KYLE FISHER, A NEIGHBOUR’S TWO-YEAR-OLD SON, BEFORE SHE WAS CLEARED IN A RETRIAL LAST YEAR. SHE HAD BEEN JAILED FOR LIFE AFTER SHE WAS CONVICTED IN 2005 OF KILLING KYLE FISHER BY REPEATEDLY BANGING HIS HEAD AGAINST A WOODEN BANNISTER AT HER HOME IN HARTLEPOOL. BUT THE COURT OF APPEAL RULED THAT HER CONVICTION WAS UNSAFE AFTER NEW MEDICAL EVIDENCE EMERGED, SUGGESTING KYLE MAY HAVE DIED FROM AN EPILEPTIC SEIZURE. SHE WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY AT THE RETRIAL.
THE TIMES: WORSE BRITISH MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE;
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The Guardian has run a video interview with Suzanne Holdsworth as part of its series "The Justice Gap," called, "Suzanne Holdsworth on her wrongful conviction."
Viewers are told that: "Suzanne Holdsworth was wrongly convicted of the murder of two-year-old Kyle Fisher. Her fight for freedom was funded by legal aid, but pressure on the system means other people may not be so lucky."
The video can be found at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/video/2009/aug/03/suzanne-holdsworth-wrongly-convicted
Harold Levy...hlevy15@gmail.com;
