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Sally Clark, the mother who was wrongly jailed for
killing her two sons, has died.
Her
family said in a statement she was found dead at her home Friday morning.
The
cause of the 42-year-old's death has not been revealed. But relatives said she
never recovered from the appalling miscarriage of justice she suffered.
Sally
Clark drank herself to death after using alcohol to numb the pain of being
wrongly convicted of killing her sons, a close friend says.
The
former solicitor is thought to have suffered a heart attack while her husband
Steve was away on business.
Friends
say tragic Sally 'died of a broken heart'
Sally
Clark's devoted husband Steve - the man who campaigned for four years after she
was wrongly jailed for murdering her baby sons - was away on business in France
when she died.
Mrs
Clark, a 42-year-old solicitor, was convicted in 1999 but cleared by the Court
of Appeal in 2003.
The
case has become notorious as one of the worst miscarriages of justice in recent
times.
May all those who drove Sally to
this hang their heads in shame
By Geoffrey Wansell
The brutal truth is Sally Clark was killed by the law
as surely as if she had been sentenced to the gallows in the days of the death
penalty. No civilised society should allow itself to tolerate such behaviour
towards a mother whose only crime was to love her children - and do everything
in her power to protect them.
Sally
Clark's death is a grotesque stain on the British legal system, the Cheshire
police and the medical establishment: and they should never be allowed to
forget it.
Sally Clark Victim of miscarriage
of Justice
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