Appeal over toddler death verdict (BBC Newsnight)

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When toddler Kyle Fisher fell mortally ill in 2004 while being looked after by babysitter Suzanne Holdsworth the police concluded that she must have murdered him - and a jury agreed.
The murder conviction against Holdsworth, now 37, from Hartlepool, rests on the assumption that Kyle was fundamentally a healthy little boy.
But this assumption, it now turns out, may be mistaken.
On Monday Newsnight is to broadcast fresh evidence in a troubling case, a day before the High Court will hear Holdsworth's appeal.
Fits can kill
Kyle had something immediately and obviously wrong with him. His right eye drooped. The jury had seen a photograph of his poorly eye but had little idea what lay behind it.
What the jury did not know was that behind the drooping eye lay major brain damage from a year-old eye injury - nothing to do with the babysitter.
Nor did the jury hear that two surgeons had examined Kyle six months before he died.
They planned to operate on the brain injury and noted their concerns in Kyle's medical notes. The brain damage could cause Kyle to fit and fits can kill.
Nor did the jury hear that a senior officer on the case, Acting Detective Sergeant Sharon Birch, had read the medical notes and asked that statements be taken from the two surgeons.
For reasons that have yet to be explained, the murder inquiry did not take statements from the surgeons. Mrs Birch was removed from the inquiry.
Holdsworth, from Hartlepool, looks haggard in the police photo taken shortly after her arrest.

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