Letter: Disappointed with legal ruling

We are hugely disappointed, confused and further disillusioned by the decision of the courts to dismiss the application of the Crown Prosecution to appeal. We have lost all faith in a justice system we believed could fairly distinguish guilt and innocence.

The Crown Prosecution were able to bring charges against optometrist Honey Rose because her statutory duty of care was so clear. It was equally as transparent that duty had been breached ‘for no good reason’. There was no evidence that she had not been able or had not performed a full internal examination of our son’s eyes. The fact she discharged our son with ‘normal’ records was an instrumental factor in her conviction. It is only that the breach itself and what was expected of the reasonably competent optometrist was so clear, that both the charge and conviction were established.