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The couple who won a landmark legal battle to keep their baby son, after their first three children were forcibly adopted because of false allegations of child abuse, have won the first stage of their fight to get his siblings back.
Mark and Nicky Webster have been granted legal aid for their attempt to appeal against the May 2004 care order that resulted in them losing the children, who can be identified only as A, B and C.
The decision to grant the order, made after a one-day hearing behind closed doors in the Family Court, relied almost totally on now-discredited medical evidence that distinctive bone fractures to Child B could have been caused only by violent shaking and twisting.
That theory was discounted when some of Britain's most eminent experts were asked to look again at B's medical records during the Websters' successful fight to retain custody of their fourth child, Brandon, earlier this year.
They agreed that Child B's injuries were instead classic symptoms of scurvy – an illness caused by vitamin deficiency that was a result of the family GP recommending that Child B be fed soya milk, which has virtually no vitamin C, because the youngster could not stomach cow's milk.
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