She said the discovery that none of his remains were in the coffin – which contained an infant’s shawl, hat, a cross and a name tag – was “devastating”.
Prof Black said there were no skeletal remains and no sign of decomposition. She told BBC Scotland: “Ultimately there is only one possible logical explanation and that is that the body was not put in that coffin.”
Ms Reid said that when she asked to see her son following his death she was shown a different body.
She explained: “I objected but they said I was suffering from post-natal depression,” she said. “This baby was blond and big, my baby was tiny and dark-haired. This was not my son.”
Ms Reid was a leading figure in the campaign to expose how hospitals had unlawfully retained dead children’s body parts for research.
The NHS in Scotland was forced to admit the practice after an investigation into organ retention at Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool.
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