Sally Clark

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sally Clark
Occupation	Solicitor
Date Of Birth	Aug 15, 1964(1964-08-15)
Age	60
Date Of Death	March 15, 2007, Hatfield Peverel, United Kingdom
Birthplace	Devizes
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Leo

Sally Clark Biography

Sally Clark is one of the most popular and richest Solicitor who was born on August 15, 1964 in Devizes, United Kingdom. Sally Clark was born Sally Lockyer in Devizes, Wiltshire, and was an only child. Her father was a senior police officer with Wiltshire Constabulary and her mother was a hairdresser. She was educated at South Wilts Grammar School for Girls in Salisbury. She studied geography at Southampton University, and worked as a management trainee with Lloyds Bank and then at Citibank. She married solicitor Steve Clark in 1990, and left her job in the City of London to train in the same profession. She studied at City University, London, and trained at Macfarlanes, a city law firm. She moved with her husband to join the law firm Addleshaw Booth & Co in Manchester in 1994. They bought a house in Wilmslow in Cheshire.

Clark and her husband were arrested on 23 February 1998 on suspicion of murdering their children. On the advice of her lawyers she twice refused to answer questions. She was later charged with two counts of murder whilst the case against her husband was dropped. Clark always denied the charge, and was supported throughout by her husband. During the court proceedings she gave birth to a third son.

Clark was convicted in November 1999. The convictions were upheld on appeal in October 2000, but overturned in a second appeal in January 2003, after it emerged that Alan Williams, the prosecution forensic pathologist who examined both babies, had failed to disclose microbiological reports that suggested the second of her sons had died of natural causes. Clark was released from prison having served more than three years of her sentence. Journalist Geoffrey Wansell called Clark’s experience “one of the great miscarriages of justice in modern British legal history”. As a result of her case, the Attorney-General ordered a review of hundreds of other cases, and two other women had their convictions overturned. Clark’s experience caused her to develop serious psychiatric problems and she died in her home in March 2007 from alcohol poisoning.

In October 2001, the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) issued a public statement expressing its concern at the “misuse of statistics in the courts”. It noted that there was “no statistical basis” for the “1 in 73 million” figure. In January 2002, the RSS wrote to the Lord Chancellor pointing out that “the calculation leading to 1 in 73 million is invalid”.

Later, it came to light that microbiological tests showed that Harry had colonisation of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, indicating that he had died from natural causes, but the evidence had not been disclosed to the defence. This exculpatory evidence had been known to the prosecution’s pathologist, Alan Williams, since February 1998, but was not shared with other medical witnesses, police or lawyers. The evidence was unearthed by her husband from hospital records obtained by the divorce lawyer Marilyn Stowe, who provided her services free of charge because she felt that “something was not right about the case”. It also became clearer that the statistical evidence presented at Clark’s trial was seriously flawed.

Sally Clark Net Worth

Sally Clark is one of the richest Solicitor from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sally Clark 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Clark’s first son, Christopher, was born on 26 September 1996. Court documents describe him as a healthy baby. On 13 December Clark called an ambulance to the family home. The baby had fallen unconscious after being put to bed, and was declared dead after being transported to the hospital. Clark suffered from post-natal depression and received counselling at the Priory Clinic, but was in recovery by the time her second son, Harry, was born three weeks premature on 29 November 1997. However, he was also found dead on 26 January 1998, aged 8 weeks. On both occasions, Clark was at home alone with her baby and there was evidence of trauma, which could have been related to attempts to resuscitate them.

Clark’s first son died in December 1996 within a few weeks of his birth. Her second son died in similar circumstances in January 1998. A month later, Clark was arrested and tried for both deaths. The defence argued that the children had died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The prosecution case relied on flawed statistical evidence presented by paediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow, who testified that the chance of two children from an affluent family suffering SIDS was 1 in 73 million. He had arrived at this figure by approximating the square of 1 in 8500, as (erroneously) being the likelihood of SIDS in similar circumstances. The Royal Statistical Society later issued a statement arguing that there was no statistical basis for Meadow’s claim, and expressed concern at the “misuse of statistics in the courts”.

Clark was convicted by a 10–2 majority verdict on 9 November 1999, and given the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment. She was widely reviled in the press as the murderer of her children. Despite recognition of the flaws in Meadow’s statistical evidence, the convictions were upheld at appeal in October 2000. She was imprisoned at Styal women’s prison, near her home in Wilmslow, and then Bullwood Hall women’s prison in Hockley in Essex. The nature of her conviction as a child-killer, and her background as a solicitor and daughter of a police officer, made her a target for other prisoners. Her husband left his partnership at a Manchester law firm to work as a legal assistant nearer the prison, selling the family house to meet the legal bills from the trial and first appeal.

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Meadow was struck off the medical register by the General Medical Council in 2005 for serious professional misconduct. It was during the GMC hearing that, when questioned directly, he made his first public apology for the effect of his ‘misleading’ evidence. He cited ‘legal advice’ and ‘professional etiquette’ as the reasons for the delay. Then current GMC professional conduct guidance did not support his ‘professional etiquette’ reason. He was reinstated in 2006 after he appealed and the court ruled (2 to 1) that his actions in court had amounted to misconduct though not serious enough to warrant him being struck off. The senior judge on the panel, Master of the Rolls Sir Anthony Clarke, dissented from the view of his two colleagues. In his opinion Meadow’s actions had amounted to serious professional misconduct.

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Sally Ranked on the list of most popular Solicitor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Sally Clark celebrates birthday on August 15 of every year.

Sally Clark (August 1964 – 15 March 2007) was an English solicitor who, in November 1999, became the victim of a miscarriage of justice when she was found guilty of the murder of her two infant sons.