An optometrist has had her conviction quashed after failing to spot an eye condition in an eight-year-old boy who later died.
Honey Rose, 35, was found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter after Vincent Barker died in July 2012 when fluid built up on his brain. She was given a two-year suspended sentence in August after missing the condition during a routine eye test.
Vincent's family said the appeal court ruling had left them "devastated".
Judges found there had been a "serious breach of duty", but that was a matter for regulators and not the courts. During her trial last year mother-of three Ms Rose, from Newham, east London, told the court she had conducted all the required tests during Vincent's eye examination at the Ipswich branch of Boots on 15 February 2012. However, a jury heard she failed to notice that the boy had swollen optic discs, an abnormality which is a symptom of hydrocephalus - fluid on the brain.
Vincent, known as Vinnie, died in July 2012, about five months after the eye test.
