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| A babysitter accused of murdering her neighbour's two-year-old son in 2004 has been found not guilty. | |
| Suzanne Holdsworth had been accused of banging Kyle Fisher's head against a banister in Hartlepool, Teesside. | |
| Ms Holdsworth, 38, now of Boggart Hill Drive, Leeds, denied murder. She said the toddler had suffered a fit. | |
| In May the Court of Appeal overturned Ms Holdsworth's original conviction. It took the jury two days to find her not guilty during the retrial. | |
| The mother-of-two was originally convicted of the murder in March 2005 and jailed for life at Teesside Crown Court. | |
| But the verdict was overturned after doubts were raised about medical evidence presented in the first trial. | |
| She was released from prison earlier this year after serving three years. | |
| Doubts raised | |
| During Ms Holdsworth's original trial she was accused of repeatedly banging Kyle's head against a wooden bannister with as much force as a 60mph crash, after losing her temper. | |
| However, doubts were first raised about her conviction by journalist John Sweeney in a report for BBC Newsnight. | |
| The programme interviewed leading neuro-pathologist Dr Wainey Squier who later gave evidence for the defence in the re-trial. | |
| She said it was "unlikely" Kyle had suffered a massive blow to the head. |