THURSDAY 18 DECEMBER 22:30 GMT - BBC TWO FROM KIRSTY WARK Hello, BABYSITTER We begin tonight with the story of Suzanne Holdsworth, following her acquittal today of the killing of two year old Kyle Fisher at a retrial. Suzanne Holdsworth spent three years in jail for a murder she did not commit. It was a Newsnight investigation in December of last year that first raised doubts about her guilt, when the journalist John Sweeney revealed the shortcomings of the medical evidence in the case. His film led directly to the quashing of her conviction at the Court of Appeal, and hence to a retrial. Tonight we tell the story of this dreadful miscarriage of justice - the shocking failures of the pathologist in the case and the inadequacies in the investigation by Cleveland Police. GHAFFUR We have a special end of year interview with Tarique Ghaffur who was until his resignation this year from the Metropolitan Police, Britain?s most senior Asian police officer. In June he accused the Met of racial discrimination - what does he think of the force now? POLITICS And we look back on the political year and at the extraordinary way the economic crisis swept away everything that had gone before it - and we'll hear from our panel of political insiders Danny Finkelstein, Olly Grender and Peter Hyman. Missed Newsnight? Click here to watch online Newsnight Blog Add your comments to our correspondents' blogs: CLICK HERE |