Former Boots optometrist Ms Honey Rose had originally received a two-year suspended sentence after she failed to notice swollen optic discs during an examination of eight-year-old Vincent Barker, who later died due to fluid build-up in the brain.However, that ruling was quashed on appeal after it was determined the initial judge had misdirected the case to the jury when applying the legal test of “foreseeability”.Following the acquittal, the prosecution applied to take the case to the Supre Court, claiming the law on gross negligence manslaughter is “not satisfactorily clear.”However, the application was turned down in a hearing that lasted less than a minute.Rose rains under an interim suspension order from the General Optical Council (GOC) until June 2018, but Barker’s parents have previously said the decision failed to give justice to their son, who would have continued to live had she detected the abnormality during the initial eye exam.
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