A panel of medical experts has challenged the evidence used to convict British nurse Lucy Letby of murdering seven newborns and attempting to kill six others.
A panel of medical experts has cast doubt on the evidence used to convict British nurse Lucy Letby of murdering seven newborns and attempting to kill six others. Dr. Shoo Lee, a retired neonatologist from Canada, led the examination of 14 pediatric specialists who concluded that natural causes or inadequate medical care were responsible for the deaths of each infant. 'In summary, then, ladies and gentlemen, we did not find any murders,' Lee stated at a London news conference.
Letby, 35, is currently serving multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole following her conviction for murder and attempted murder during her tenure as a neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital in northwestern England between June 2015 and June 2016.Letby's defense lawyer, Mark McDonald, argued that there is now 'overwhelming evidence' indicating her wrongful conviction, stating, 'She’s sitting in prison for the rest of her life for a crime that just never happened.' McDonald asserted that the foundation of Letby's conviction rested upon the medical evidence presented to the jury, which he now claims has been 'demolished.' Letby has previously had two appeals against her convictions rejected, but her legal team has submitted a request to the Criminal Case Review Commission to scrutinize her case, potentially paving the way for a further appeal.The Crown Prosecution Service declined to comment on the findings of the new medical panel. Prosecutors previously maintained that two juries had convicted Letby and that three appellate judges had dismissed her arguments challenging the validity of the prosecution's expert evidence. This press conference, partly led by McDonald, represents the second attempt to challenge the conclusions of Dr. Dewi Evans, the prosecution's primary expert witness. McDonald had previously accused Evans of being an unreliable witness due to his alteration of his opinion regarding the cause of death for three of the infants. Evans subsequently refuted these claims, stating that concerns about his evidence were 'unsubstantiated, unfounded, inaccurate.' Prosecutors alleged that Letby left minimal traces when she killed infants, occasionally injecting air into their bloodstreams or stomachs, inducing an embolism. Lee, however, contended that embolism is an exceedingly rare occurrence and the discoloration of the skin observed during the trial was not consistent with the characteristics of an embolism. 'The notion that these babies can be diagnosed with air embolism because they collapsed and had these skin discolorations has no evidence in fact,' Lee asserted. In one specific instance, where Letby was accused of overfeeding a baby, the panel concluded that the infant's illness stemmed from a viral infection and subsequently recovered a week after receiving antibiotics. A separate public inquiry into the hospital's failures, leading to multiple instances of baby harm, is anticipated to conclude next month. This inquiry, however, is not examining the evidence used to convict Letby but will focus on holding hospital staff and management accountable and investigating the treatment parents received
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