A mother who fought for compensation after she was wrongly jailed for killing her son today lost her potentially landmark case at the European Court of Human Rights.
Lorraine Allen, 39, was jailed for three years in 2000 after a jury found her guilty of the manslaughter of her four-month-old son, Patrick, in a shaken baby case.
Ms Allen’s conviction was quashed in 2005 after fresh evidence from medical experts proved it to be unsafe. In addition, a child born while she was serving her sentence had been taken from her and put up for adoption.
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