 Angela Cannings was jailed in April 2002 |
Lawyers for a mother convicted of murdering her two baby sons are to put new evidence to the Court of Appeal. Angela Cannings' legal team say her family history shows Jason, who was seven weeks and Matthew, who was four months, died from a genetic defect.
They say it is now known that three of Cannings' relatives died in early infancy, probably from cot death.
Another family member has also recently revealed that two of her babies suddenly collapsed and almost died.
'Grossly misleading'
Doubts about the safety of convictions in such cases have grown since a solicitor from Cheshire, Sally Clark, was cleared on appeal of murdering her two young sons.
The Court said expert evidence that the chance of two cot deaths in one family was one in 73 million was "grossly misleading".
Cannings' first child, a daughter, died when she was three-months-old from sudden infant death syndrome.
She maintains that the condition - commonly known as cot death - also claimed the lives of her two sons.
At her trial, the defence argued the deaths were caused by a genetic defect, but the claim was rejected.
Cannings, 40, from Salisbury, was sentenced to life in April 2002 for the murder of Jason in June 1991 and Matthew in November 1999.
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