Louise Woodward's case shocked the world.

The teenager was accused of killing a baby who was supposed to be in her care.

She had flown to the US to work for another family but was reportedly unhappy with the 11 pm curfew she was given.

She then started working for Sunil and Deborah Eappen, but they became unhappy with her as she began staying out late.

In January 1997, they established rules she had to follow.

Four days later, Matthew stopped breathing, and Woodward called for an ambulance.

He was taken to Boston Children's Hospital, but six days later, he died of a fractured skull and a subdural hematoma – a serious condition where blood collects between the skull and the surface of the brain.

Woodward was put on trial for the death, and the prosecution claimed she killed Matthew in a 'frustrated, unhappy, and relentless rage.

' She claimed she laid Matthew down and did not drop him.

The defense argued that Matthew's injuries could have been caused by a head injury several weeks earlier.

She wept in the dock and told her parents, 'Please don't let me spend the rest of my life in here for something I didn't do.

' Two days later, it emerged that the jury was split before deciding to convict.

One jury member said none of them 'thought she tried to murder' the child.

Woodward's legal team launched an appeal, and just 10 days later, Judge Hiller Zobel overturned the jury's decision.

Her charge was reduced to involuntary manslaughter, her sentence was reduced to time served (which was 279 days), and she was freed.

The judge said Woodward was 'characterized by confusion, inexperience, frustration, immaturity, and some anger, but not malice supporting a conviction of second-degree murder.

' Frustrated by her inability to quiet the crying child, she was 'a little rough with him,' under circumstances where another, perhaps wiser person would have sought to restrain the physical impulse.

Prosecutors appealed against the judge's decision, but on June 16, 1998, the supreme court rejected the appeal by four votes to three.

Woodward's lawyers also asked the supreme court to throw out her manslaughter conviction, but this was upheld.

Woodward returned to the UK and hoped to live a normal life.

She said at the time, 'I'd like to do what any other 20-year-old would do, I'd like to get a part-time job and just do normal things.

' It was reported she lived in Bridgnorth in the West Midlands in 2008 and that she had started a dance school.

She also started baking and sold her products in Wolverhampton before studying for a degree in law.

She told the media before the birth of her child, 'I know there are some people waiting for me to have a baby so they can say nasty things.

It upsets me, but that is not going to stop me leading my life.

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I am entitled to enjoy my life.

I am not going to apologize for being happy.

'The ITV synopsis says: 'This new current affairs documentary for ITV focuses on the trial of Louise Woodward, the 19-year-old British au pair accused of the murder, by shaking, of nine-month-old baby Matthew Eappen who was in her care while she was working in the US.

At the time the highest-profile court case in the US featuring a British defendant, the trial was played out on television screens across both sides of the Atlantic.

This program, marking 25 years since the 1997 trial, features access to many of the key figures closest to the case, aiming to illuminate each key step of the trial and its aftermath.

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