Baby P Chief: I Wanted to Kill Myself ; Sacked Shoesmith Claims She Is Victim in Abuse Case [Edition 3]
Evening Standard - London › October 07, 2009
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THE woman who lost her job as head of Haringey children's services over the Baby P case was left feeling suicidal and facing financial ruin, a court heard today.
Sharon Shoesmith, 56, claims she is the victim of a miscarriage of justice after being dismissed without compensation following a damning report into her department's failings. She caused outrage when she refused to apologise and insisted no one should lose their job. Now she is demanding an estimated Pounds 173,000 and today launched a judicial challenge in the High Court to prove that Children's Secretary Ed Balls and Haringey council were wrong to sack her. The 17-month-old boy -- initially known as Baby P but now identified as Peter Connelly -- died of horrific injuries in Haringey in 2007 at the hands of his mother Tracey Connelly, 28, her lover Steven Barker, 33, and Barker's brother Jason Owen, 37. They were all jailed in May. Peter had suffered 50 injuries despite receiving 60 visits from social workers, doctors and police over the final eight months of his life.See the full content of this document
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Baby P Chief: I Wanted to Kill Myself ; Sacked Shoesmith Claims She Is Victim in Abuse Case [Edition 3]
The High Court heard this afternoon that ministers piled pressure on Haringey council to suspend Ms Shoesmith after Gordon Brown was embarrassed by a Commons question from David Cameron on the issue.
Ms S...See the full content of this document
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