Nicky and Mark Webster Support Group

Nicky and Mark Webster, the couple who lost three of their children to forced adoption after allegations of abuse were told on they could not have their children back, despite the fact it was “possible” they were victims of a miscarriage of justice.

The couple from Cromer, Norfolk, were told by a top judge that it was too late to turn back the clock and return the children to them - he also said no blame should be attached to the family justice system.

The Websters were accused of inflicting multiple fractures on their baby boy in 2004, but expert evidence since then has sought to prove otherwise.

The Websters battled to persuade the judges that their baby son's injuries were due to a modern case of scurvy, brought on by his acute eating problems, which saw him existing on an exclusive diet of supermarket soya milk.

And Lord Justice Wall accepted it was “possible, Mr and Mrs Webster would say probable” that the basis on which their children, referred to as A, B and C, were taken from them was “wrong”.

However, the judge added that, even if the couple were entirely innocent, the children had been settled with their adoptive families for over three years and it was now “too late” to turn the clock back.