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The General Medical Council has struck off Professor Roy Meadow after finding he gave “misleading” evidence during the Sally Clark case.

Mrs Clark was convicted of murdering her two baby sons in 1999, but she was exonerated after an appeal in 2003.

During the initial trial Prof Meadow stated that the risk of two infants dying of sudden infant death syndrome in a household such as Mrs Clark’s was 1 in 73 million. The GMC found that Prof Meadows had failed in his duty to identify relevant matters, including assumptions, on which his statistical evidence.

It found Prof Meadow guilty of Serious Professional Misconduct and said suspension from the medical register did not reflect the seriousness of the offence.

“It has therefore concluded that it is proportionate in safeguarding the public interest and in promoting and maintaining that trust that your name be erased from the Medical Register,” the GMC’s Fitness to Practise Panel said.