An unlikeable women, polarized public, media appearances which was used against her.
A less-than-professional response from police, including one of them who moved the baby's clothing without first having it photographed, was followed by equally lackadaisical performances from other professionals. Professor James Cameron, the acclaimed British forensic pathologist, sternly proclaimed he could discern the print of the "bloodied" hand of a young adult on the jumpsuit. As it was later conceded, he had not tested whether the material was blood. It wasn't.
A "spray pattern" identified on the dashboard of the Chamberlains' Torana hatchback was asserted as evidence of arterial spurting from the baby as she was having her throat cut. That "spray" was not blood at all. It was bituminous sound-deadener inadvertently applied during manufacture of the vehicle. So far off were the scientific opinions that the core of the court battle was whether the "blood" contained foetal hemoglobin. Only towards the end of that trial, when a similar spray pattern was found in another Torana hatchback, did the thought arise there might not have been any blood at all, but by that time the argument had gone too far in the other direction.
I was mainly explaining my distrust of prosecution forensics and a incompetent police.
