Murder appeal hears medical evidence will clear babysitter

NEW medical evidence in the case of a babysitter convicted of murdering her neighbour’s two-year-old son by repeatedly banging his head against a wooden banister demonstrated she was the victim of a “serious miscarriage of justice”, the Court of Appeal in London heard yesterday.

A barrister representing Suzanne Holdsworth, 37, submitted that on the strength of that fresh evidence “no jury properly directed could safely convict”.

The mother-of-two was present in the dock of the courtroom as Henry Blaxland QC presented her case before three judges at the start of proceedings expected to last four days.