Mother who drowned her five children is granted a retrial after witness gave false evidence

In the full version (on bmj.com) of this News article by Fred Charatan we wrongly said that Andrea Yates had been granted a new trial because an expert medical witness for the prosecution had lied at her original trial (BMJ 2005;330:112, 15 Jan). We should have said that the expert witness gave “false testimony” at her original trial.