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No medical evidence to support Lucy Letby's conviction, expert panel says
Letby’s lawyer claims report demolishes case against her and provides ‘overwhelming evidence’ her conviction is unsafe
Lucy Letby is the victim of “one of the major injustices of modern times”, it has been claimed, after an international panel of experts found no evidence she had murdered or harmed any of the babies she was accused of attacking.
The panel concluded that the 17 newborns whom Letby was charged with harming had suffered a catalogue of “bad medical care” or deteriorated as a result of natural causes at the Countess of Chester hospital in north-west England.
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The senior Conservative MP David Davis described the case as “one of the major injustices of modern times” as the findings of 14 leading experts, including a former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, were laid bare at a press conference in Westminster.
Dr Shoo Lee, a retired Canadian neonatologist who chaired the panel, said they had found “so many problems with the medical care” of many of the babies and nothing to support the claim they had been attacked.
A 31-page summary report gave alternative causes of death for four of the seven babies Letby was convicted of murdering, alleging that poor care contributed to each death. “In summary, ladies and gentlemen, we did not find any murders,” he said.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/04/no-medical-evidence-to-support-lucy-letby-conviction-expert-panel-finds
Lucy Letby is the victim of “one of the major injustices of modern times”, it has been claimed, after an international panel of experts found no evidence she had murdered or harmed any of the babies she was accused of attacking.
The panel concluded that the 17 newborns whom Letby was charged with harming had suffered a catalogue of “bad medical care” or deteriorated as a result of natural causes at the Countess of Chester hospital in north-west England.
...
The senior Conservative MP David Davis described the case as “one of the major injustices of modern times” as the findings of 14 leading experts, including a former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, were laid bare at a press conference in Westminster.
Dr Shoo Lee, a retired Canadian neonatologist who chaired the panel, said they had found “so many problems with the medical care” of many of the babies and nothing to support the claim they had been attacked.
A 31-page summary report gave alternative causes of death for four of the seven babies Letby was convicted of murdering, alleging that poor care contributed to each death. “In summary, ladies and gentlemen, we did not find any murders,” he said.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/04/no-medical-evidence-to-support-lucy-letby-conviction-expert-panel-finds
This follows up an earlier story I posted here last October:
Lucy Letby: police and CPS handling of case raises new concerns about convictions - https://www.democraticunderground.com/108823271