A childminder found guilty of killing a baby in her care will learn the result of her appeal against her conviction today.
Judges in London will announce their decision in a challenge by Keran Henderson, of Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, who has always protested her innocence.
At a hearing in March, the Court of Appeal heard submissions on her behalf that natural causes for the death could not be ruled out.
The judges were urged to rule that the 2007 manslaughter conviction which resulted in her being jailed for three years over the death of 11-month-old Maeve Sheppard was “unsafe”.
The prosecution case at trial was that injuries suffered by Maeve were caused by violent shaking, but Henderson, who had seven years’ experience as a childminder and was also a Beaver Scout leader, claimed the child had a seizure while she was changing her nappy.
Henderson was in sole charge of Maeve when she was taken to hospital unconscious and critically ill with brain injuries in March 2005.
A jury at Reading Crown Court convicted Henderson, a mother of two, of manslaughter by a majority of 10 to two at the end of a five-week trial. She has since completed her sentence.
Henderson, who ran her childminding business from her home in Iver Heath, was hired in January 2005 to look after Maeve.
Today’s ruling will be given by Lord Justice Moses, Mrs Justice Rafferty and Mr Justice Hedley.
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