Tears and anger of freed mother

A mother freed after being wrongly jailed for killing her two babies has spoken of her six-year prison ordeal.

Donna Anthony, 31, walked free after her 1998 conviction for murdering her children was quashed by the Appeal Court.

Speaking for the first time, she has told how she was divorced by her husband, shunned by friends and hated by inmates. After her mother died in 2003 her only visitor was her lawyer.

She said: "In prison they thought I was the lowest of the low, the worst of the worst. You can't imagine how that feels when you know that you are innocent. I lost my mum, my children, my friends. I have nothing left.

"This is not a celebration- - I'll never celebrate. Instead, I have tears and anger inside me, screaming to come out. I may not be a lifer any more but I feel I will always be."

Ms Anthony, of Yeovil, Somerset, was jailed for life at the age of 25 for smothering to death her 11-month-old daughter Jordan and four-monthold son Michael. She believed they were cot deaths.

Among those who gave evidence for the prosecution was discredited professor Sir Roy Meadow. Ms Anthony is the fourth woman to be cleared following cases which hinged on evidence from the professor.

Following yesterday's five-hour hearing, she said: "I never allowed myself to think about this day. For six and a half years all I wanted was for somebody, somewhere, to believe I was telling the truth."