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November 2005, Vol. 95, No. 11 SAMJ Uncertainty as to the cause or causes of sudden and unexpected infant death and difficulty in excluding the possibility of infanticide, even after the performance of a ‘complete’ autopsy, was graphically illustrated in the London courts recently. A mother wrongly convicted of killing her two sons had her conviction quashed, and the eminent paediatrician who had given the court erroneous statistical information was struck off the medical register for serious professional misconduct.