Sharon Shoesmith tells of her anger at being dismissed by Ed Balls on live TV

Sharon Shoesmith tells of her anger at being dismissed by Ed Balls on live TV

Sharon Shoesmith admits to mixed feelings about the appeal court ruling that found she had been unlawfully dismissed. On the one hand a quiet euphoria that her two-year legal fight may have been successfully concluded; on the other a deep sense of regret about where her odyssey started: the death of Peter Connelly, a 17-month-old boy on the child protection register in Haringey, north London.