Professor Andrew Shennan, professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at King's College London and spokesperson for the baby charity Tommy's, agreed with the researchers recommendations for identifying and monitoring those at increased risk.
The movement started around the time of the 1992 riots that followed the Rodney King verdict, when a previously wayward young man named Thomas Johnson reinvented himself as Tommy the Clown and established an institution called Tommy's Hip Hop Clown Academy.