Her case - and her sudden death at her Essex home in March - shone a stark spotlight on the reliability of expert medical witnesses and the lack of care offered to victims of miscarriages of justice.
The coroner, Caroline Beasley-Murray, said there was no evidence that Mrs Clark, 42, intended to commit suicide.
Wrongly Convicted, Now Dead
No Justice, Found Dead
The Case of Sally Clark, Drank Herself to Death
Mrs Clark was found guilty in 1999 of murdering eight-week-old Harry and 11-week-old Christopher within a period of 14 months. She served more than three years in prison before being cleared by the court of appeal in 2003 after evidence about the incidence of cot deaths was challenged.Coroner's officer John Pheby told the inquest that postmortem tests showed she had a concentration of alcohol in her blood which would have made her more than five times the drink-drive limit - 428mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood.
A Home Office pathologist concluded that Mrs Clark had died as a result of acute alcohol intoxication. Mr Pheby told the hearing that Mrs Clark had tried to rebuild her life after being released from prison in January 2003 but had been diagnosed with a number of serious psychiatric problems. "These problems included enduring personality change after catastrophic experience, protracted grief reaction and alcohol dependency syndrome," he said.
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