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Mother died of alcohol poisoning Alcohol killed mother Sally Clark
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An inquest into the death of a mother wrongly convicted of killing her two children ruled she died accidentally of acute alcohol intoxication.An inquest into the death of a mother wrongly convicted of killing her two children ruled she died accidentally of acute alcohol intoxication.
Solicitor Sally Clark, 42, of Hatfield Peverel, near Witham, was found dead at her home in March. Solicitor Sally Clark, 42, of Hatfield Peverel, near Witham, Essex, was found dead at her home in March.
Mrs Clark was cleared of murdering her two sons, Christopher and Harry, who died in 1996 and 1998.Mrs Clark was cleared of murdering her two sons, Christopher and Harry, who died in 1996 and 1998.
Her family said after her death: "She never recovered from the effects of this appalling miscarriage of justice." Essex coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray said there was no evidence Mrs Clark intended to commit suicide.
Mrs Clark was found guilty of murdering eight-week-old Harry and 11-week-old Christopher in 1999 while she was living in Wilmslow, Cheshire.
'Miscarriage of justice'
She spent three years in jail for murder, before she was cleared by the Court of Appeal in January 2003.
In a statement following Mrs Clark's death her family said she "never fully recovered from the effects of this appalling miscarriage of justice".
During her trial, the court was told her children died within 14 months of each other and jurors had to decide whether their deaths were natural.
The expert evidence of paediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow was a focal point throughout the trial and appeal.
He told jurors the probability of two natural unexplained cot deaths in one family was 73m-to-one.
The figure was disputed by the Royal Statistical Society and other medical experts who said the odds of a second cot death in a family were around 200-to-one.