Dedicated to establishing whether evidence on the case provided Lucy Letby a fair trial.
DMs open for - Expert opinions - Linking of experts - Investigations.
“the theories proposed in court were not plausible and the prosecution was full of medical inaccuracies. … The information presented to court was flawed and not proof of guilt beyond doubt”
Dr Svilena Dimitrova, NHS consultant neonatologist
#LucyLetby
's appeal -🔑points argued re Air Embolism
-The Judge was wrong not to direct the jury to disregard Dr Evan's evidence
-The Judge was wrong to admit further evidence from him
The defence argued the expert should have been struck out for being "dogmatic and biased"
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"I suspect she was convicted precisely because the case against her is so weak. It is easy to defend yourself against specific charges. You can prove you weren’t there, if you weren’t, etc. But the whole case against Ms Letby is brd on theorising."
A completely biased investigation where her "colleagues" were part of it in the literal sense. Here Brearey ONE OF THE ACCUSERS admits reviewing the babies' notes for the police.
Not even basic HR investigations would accept it as good practice.
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@gill1109
There was very little questioning of any of the evidence from what I can gather. A biased and flawed police investigation, which they even admitted was heavily based on her colleagues' "investigation"
Are you familiar with nurse Amanda Jenkinson's case?
1996 - convicted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent to a patient
2005 - her conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal
"She complained about an incident and within a matter of weeks found herself suspended"
Ranking Neonatologist:
"The prosecution's comments are medically illiterate and so too many of the 'expert' witness comments/conviction is wholly unsafe/shakes my faith in the competence of the law"
@drphilhammond
investigation part 2 into the
#LucyLetby
case.
“What it has definitely led to is huge fear, amid, especially the neonatal nursing body. I have never seen so many nurses resign as I have seen in the past 18 months.”
‘It’s made us worried’
Dr Svilena Dimitrova, consultant neonatologist
#LucyLetby
Hospital where
#LucyLetby
worked suffered bacteria outbreak ‘lethal’ to babies
Leaked risk report shows pseudomonas aeruginosa colonised taps in nurseries of neonatal unit
The care those babies were receiving is just awful, to not sedate a baby before inserting chest drains is obscene
And, a "TV Doctor" left a needle inside the chest of child H who suffered two cardiac arrests
#LucyLetby
was found NOT GUILTY on counts 10 & 11 of attempted murder
Worth spreading posts questioning the verdict as much as possible, the more momentum the better.
Part of the task for the next few days is messaging:
#LucyLetby
: Did She Really Do It?
Please share 🙏
Dr Evans was not an independent expert witness.
As clearly argued by
#LucyLetby
's defence, he was the "investigator" and therefore, to ensure experts' opinions were free of bias he shouldn't have taken the stand to act as an expert witness
My first
@PrivateEyeNews
column on the trial of Lucy Letby is now available online.
My second column on Letby is out today. Please buy the magazine rather than share it online.
For those who don’t have time to read it, I would make the following
“And then all of these emails and telephone calls started arriving, and they weren’t from conspiracy theorists. They were from a past president of the Royal Statistical Society [RSS], a very senior neonatologist; nurses, lawyers, you name it."
#LucyLetby
Former Cabinet Minister David Davis is to spearhead a Commons campaign raising questions about the conviction of nurse Lucy Letby as growing numbers of experts express concerns about the case.
Child C
800gms at birth & had acute pneumonia
Pathology - acute pneumonia w ‘widespread ischaemic damage to the heart’ due to lung disease, with maternal vascular under perfusion as a contributory factor
Dr Evans - death was caused by air injected into the baby's stomach
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🚨Another must read🚨
"Nobody ever saw her do anything. You know... everything was circumstantial, but the circumstance was largely dreamed up by the people giving the evidence," he claims.
#LucyLetby
🚨This should be plenty of NEW EVIDENCE for an appeal to be granted to
#LucyLetby
And invalidate ALL expert opinions used at trial
Looking forward to hearing views from a legal perspective.
@legalmarkmc
@d_a_t_green
@JusticeGap
Hospital where
#LucyLetby
worked suffered bacteria outbreak ‘lethal’ to babies
Leaked risk report shows pseudomonas aeruginosa colonised taps in nurseries of neonatal unit
Confessions?
Not according to Professor David Wilson.
"I just think this is the rumblings of somebody who is in extreme psychological pressure" - David Wilson, Emeritus Professor of criminology at Birmingham City University.
Source: "Panorama, Lucy Letby: The Nurse Who Killed"
Lucy Letby: a miscarriage of justice?
Since Letby's conviction for killing seven babies at a neonatal unit, experts have expressed grave doubts about the case 👇
Looking through to identify Miscarriages of Justice in the UK since 1996 where, upon appeal, no crime was found to have been committed.
Disregarding contentious sexual abuse cases, ALL BUT ONE crimes were 'invented' by bad medical expert testimony
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“With regard to medical evidence, I don’t think the prosecution proved
#LucyLetby
guilty beyond reasonable doubt. I don’t think she had a fair trial because no medical expert witness was called for the defence to challenge the prosecution expert medical evidence”
Dr Mike Hall
“I would visit
#LucyLetby
in prison.”
MP David Davis has put his head above the parapet on the issue and has decided to conduct his own investigation into the nurse after being contacted by numerous experts with their concerns.
Child P
Following several episodes of desaturation, an X-ray identified a punctured & collapsed lung
Drs gave an incorrectly high amount of adrenalin during unsuccessful resuscitation
Dr Evans' diagnosis - a "dollup" of air being injected in the baby's stomach caused his death
“I would visit Lucy Letby in prison.”
MP David Davis has put his head above the parapet on the issue and has decided to conduct his own investigation into the nurse after being contacted by numerous experts with their concerns.
“We are asked to believe that this comprised two superimposed clusters, one of seven murders by
#LucyLetby
, and one where, to quote the crown prosecution expert, they died for the usual problems why small babies die: haemorrhage, infection, congenital problems."
@Telegraph
🚨"a number of experts in fields ranging from neonatology to statistics have spoken of their concern about the safety of the convictions, citing an absence of direct forensic evidence and the way in which evidence was presented to the court."
@thetimes
#LucyLetby
Watch Sir David Davis’s interview with the
@Telegraph
MP David Davis has put his head above the parapet on the issue and has decided to conduct his own investigation into the nurse after being contacted by numerous experts with their concerns
#LucyLetby
The RSS writes to the chair of the Lucy Letby inquiry
"Healthcare Serial Killer or Coincidence? Statistical issues in the investigation of suspected medical misconduct, which sets out recommendations for how statistics could be better used." 09/23
The letter can be found here
Can’t even write this as fiction. It writes itself.
Water safety assistant job vacancy at CoCH?!
Did you have bugs in the water CoCH did you??
#LucyLetby
🧵Along with info related to the job vacancy, a follower sent us inside info that CoCH just now enhanced procedures in the hospital in line with legionnaires protocol. The CQC has recently rated the hospital as needing to improve their Infection Prevention and Control Measures
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Can’t even write this as fiction. It writes itself.
Water safety assistant job vacancy at CoCH?!
Did you have bugs in the water CoCH did you??
#LucyLetby
“the theories proposed in court were not plausible and the prosecution was full of medical inaccuracies. … The information presented to court was flawed and not proof of guilt beyond doubt”
Dr Svilena Dimitrova, NHS consultant neonatologist
“With regard to medical evidence, I don’t think the prosecution proved
#LucyLetby
guilty beyond reasonable doubt. I don’t think she had a fair trial because no medical expert witness was called for the defence to challenge the prosecution expert medical evidence”
Dr Mike Hall
The big question remains:
Without knowing of the police investigation & suspicion of foul-play, + the fact that 1 nurse was on duty for many of the incidents, would any expert have diagnosed air embolism in any of those cases?
Certainly, none of the pathologists did at the time
The more you look at
#LucyLetby
's case, more obvious it becomes that there are issues with the 'opinions' of the prosecution experts
Judge Goss's ruling of May 2023 sets his rationale for accepting that "their [Evan & Bonin] evidence was not,... , diagnostic of air embolus".
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To settle the matter once and for all - the only reason why babies stopped dying is that in June 2016 COCH's neonatal unit stopped admitting high-risk babies.
There is no coincidence
Facts are facts
#LucyLetby
Below COCH announcement of changes:
Child P
Following several episodes of desaturation, an X-ray identified a punctured & collapsed lung
Drs gave an incorrectly high amount of adrenalin during unsuccessful resuscitation
Dr Evans' diagnosis - a "dollup" of air being injected in the baby's stomach caused his death
Apologies
@DavidCollinsST
but "I don't know" is not good enough for such serious matters, is it?
The jury, the parents and the public must know.
#LucyLetby
The Condolence Card Trap
The audacity of
#LucyLetby
to send condolence cards!
Compassionate acts - condolence cards, hugs, or even polite nods - must be recorded and submitted to the "Gestures of Suspected Malevolence Committee" for a comprehensive six-to-eight-week analysis.
Summary of prosecution’s closing 09/06/2023 - SkyNews
"Out of 2,381 FB searches between 2015-16, 31 relate to parents of the 17 babies"
"
#LucyLetby
denies affair with 'married' colleague after being suspended"
"Letby 'lied' to the jury about being taken away in pyjamas"
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NHS hospital told nurse who tried to support Lucy Letby ‘she shouldn’t give evidence’
"An NHS hospital told a nurse who wanted to support Lucy Letby she should not give evidence in her case, it has been claimed."
2016 - The number of serious mistakes made by medical staff at the CoCH has increased, according to latest figures
FOI requests state eight ‘never events’ – "serious incidents that are avoidable and should never happen" – in the last five years
To most readers of
@thetimes
piece, there won't be the need to spell it out to them that the truth is what matters in this case.
#LucyLetby
@DavidDavisMP
@RexvsLucyLetby
@thetimes
The Times journalists appear to be doubling down on their original take on the trial. Simply parroting the prosecution case with no attempt to engage with the major problems with the science. I do wonder if they understand it, or are merely trying to defend their jobs.
No one is comfortable with throwing accusations, but I agree with Benjamin Myers's view in his 28 June 2023 closing speech:
It is "interesting" that the prosecution did not ask doctors to rule them out of involvement with insulin.
#LucyLetby
A completely biased investigation where her "colleagues" were part of it in the literal sense. Here Brearey ONE OF THE ACCUSERS admits reviewing the babies' notes for the police.
Not even basic HR investigations would accept it as good practice.
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The more you look at
#LucyLetby
's case, more obvious it becomes that there are issues with the 'opinions' of the prosecution experts
Judge Goss's ruling of May 2023 sets his rationale for accepting that "their [Evan & Bonin] evidence was not,... , diagnostic of air embolus".
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Ranking Neonatologist:
"The prosecution's comments are medically illiterate and so too many of the 'expert' witness comments/conviction is wholly unsafe/shakes my faith in the competence of the law"
@drphilhammond
part 2 into the
#LucyLetby
case.
Another Great column from MD on the Lucy Letby case. Ranking Neonatologist "the prosecution's comments are medically illiterate and so too many of the 'expert' witness comments/conviction is wholly unsafe/shakes my faith in the competence of the law".
Confessions?
"I just think this is the rumblings of somebody who is in extreme psychological pressure" - David Wilson, Emeritus Professor of criminology at Birmingham City University.
"Panorama, Lucy Letby: The Nurse Who Killed" via
@FacebookWatch
Potential causes of death and the main defect in
#LucyLetby
's defence highlighted by the Appeal Judges at the ruling, yet our legal system has no safeguard to ensure a fair trial in the circumstances when a defence does not put their own expert evidence.
And, contrary to what Dr Brearey says, the lab did CALL to inform the treating doctor of the results.
There were no charges against Letby at the time.
How can one be sure only half of the story was relayed to the police once the accuser is tasked to investigate?
#LucyLetby
The board is now discussing the Lucy Letby verdict & how they can learn lessons from it.
Mr May said addressing culture means it is "less likely that the appalling crimes by Lucy Letby will happen at NUH"
(cont)
“With regard to medical evidence, I don’t think the prosecution proved
#LucyLetby
guilty beyond reasonable doubt. I don’t think she had a fair trial because no medical expert witness was called for the defence to challenge the prosecution expert medical evidence”
Dr Mike Hall
“the theories proposed in court were not plausible and the prosecution was full of medical inaccuracies. … The information presented to court was flawed and not proof of guilt beyond doubt”
Dr Svilena Dimitrova, NHS consultant neonatologist
@RexvsLucyLetby
@northerness
The Court of Appeal summaries of the Expert witnesses evidence in each case are so revealing, but the Judges looked the other way due to the circumstantial evidence! This is for Twins A & B. The jury were sure she was guilty even though the experts weren’t!
@drphilhammond
@PrivateEyeNews
Insulin clarifications
1 - It was discovered over 2 years later by one of the professional witnesses (hospital Drs) when reviewing records - source BBC Panorama
2 - the lab did warn the Drs at the time (see pic)
Reading the appeal ruling shows how poorly "expert evidence" has been accepted in this trial.
Expert opinion evidence is admitted without adequate scrutiny because no clear test is applied to determine whether the evidence is sufficiently reliable to be admitted.
@drphilhammond
@PrivateEyeNews
The Law Commission actually recommended better pre-trial scrutiny of expert evidence in a report in 2011 but the Ministry of Justice did not act on those recommendations.
Please note - Air in the stomach is a usual presentation for ventilation support provided via a Neopuff device, and it has been reported by doctors to struggle to get any chest movement for Child C while administering ventilation support through the Neopuff device
A must-read
#LucyLetby
Waney Squier: ‘Science is not a democracy’
"Highly competent, experienced doctors are afraid to become expert witnesses and to challenge the hypothesis for fear of suffering the same fate as me."
Dr Evans did not suggest air in the stomach (splinting of the diaphragm) as the cause of death in eight reports completed for the investigation, including one dated August 2022 - until he changed his mind on the stand to allege that the cause of death was air in the stomach
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Interesting analysis on the matter of whistleblowing in health published today by Helen McArdle.
Lucy Letby, Tavistock, Covid - and whistleblowing in health
I wish someone else would ask this: What if
#LucyLetby
is not guilty?
by PETER HITCHENS
Horror can make us blind to doubt. For years I angrily scorned Chris Mullin’s campaign for the release of the Birmingham Six, Irishmen wrongly convicted of the 1974 IRA bombings in that city
Yep.
The Judges went further:
"In general terms, the quality of a witness’s evidence in that respect is quintessentially a matter for the jury to assess"
To avoid being framed as a serial kill3r:
Say no to overtime, or night shifts
Leave Facebook NOW
Don't keep notes of shifts in your diaries
Don't go out for drinks with colleagues
However, don't solely rely on your memory about outfits you wear.
#lucyletbytrial
@NIP_365
Steam chair for the day in Liverpool
@helenL66
speaks with passion about the impact of the Lucy Letby case on nurses. Don’t be disheartened and be so proud of nursing she says. Well said Helen! @
Out of 16 I identified, 15 cases went to court and an innocent was jailed when there wasn't even any crime committed, by anyone.
All thanks to medical expert testimony operating outside of good practice. (Thomas Smart is the odd one out - no medical evidence involved)
If like us, you have doubts about
#LucyLetby
's conviction, this article by
@PeterElston1
is a must-read.
❗️People are becoming aware that the prosecution's lead medical expert was not qualified to give evidence.
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What we need to remember is that Dr Evans was an investigator for the police
Not impartial or "just" an expert witness
If his opinions and theories of suspicious events are being publicly questioned, the cases put in the chart are meaningless
This case stinks
Poor families😢
@RexvsLucyLetby
That’s not correct. They would only have formed part of the chart if there was specific evidence gathered by the police relating to those babies being harmed, otherwise they would not have been included, nor should they if there is no evidence.
It would only be interesting if
The Jury: Murder Trial
How much can we trust our justice system?
In this landmark experiment, a real-life murder trial is restaged in front of two juries of ordinary people.
Will they both reach the same verdict?
#LucyLetby
And that those tasked with interpreting the evidence of the insulin results for the court declined to comment to
@thetimes
Hey
@BBC
"we need to talk about
#LucyLetby
"
The mighty ‘Times’ of London notices at last that there is serious, expert disquiet over the Lucy Letby verdict. Can the BBC be far behind? Maybe the Court of Appeal can also be persuaded..’How strong is the evidence against Lucy Letby?’
❗️People are becoming aware that in May 2017 Dr Evans touted for the job.
❗️People are becoming aware that Dr Evans “incidentally" became aware of the police investigation before it became public knowledge.
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Confessions?
"I just think this is the rumblings of somebody who is in extreme psychological pressure" - David Wilson, Emeritus Professor of criminology at Birmingham City University.
#LucyLetby
Source: "Panorama, Lucy Letby: The Nurse Who Killed"
This is THE POINT
There were 6 other unexplained deaths that we know of.
Whether LL was on duty or not, clinically they were deemed "unexplained" and displayed similar symptoms, therefore they should've been part of the chat.
@Courtwatch_Olly
Yes - that may be so, my point is though that they would only make the chart if there was evidence they had been attacked in some way.
Apophenia Definition & Meaning
Merriam-Webster:
The meaning of APOPHENIA is the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas).
#LucyLetby
Video source: Cheshire Police
“I have exhausted my expert contacts in neonatology, pathology and other laboratory sciences, and can’t find a single one who is prepared to argue that any of the murders were proven beyond reasonable doubt.”
Further, it was argued that the Judge was "wrong to reject the submission of no case to answer made by the defence at the conclusion of the prosecution case."
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These concerns are about:
The truth and justice for the families
Our Justice System
The police & CPS
The NHS & CoCH's management
And obviously, the biggest miscarriages of justice in British history.
#LucyLetby
The concerns surrounding Lucy Letby’s convictions are so vast & profound, they surpass political sides & culture war concerns.
It was just last month that the
@guardian
&
@Telegraph
—publications on opposite ends of the political spectrum—dropped bombshell exposés on the same day
If the jury had complete information, would they have concluded that there is both, a serial killer at work as well as some other factor (faulty equipment, understaffed unit, incompetent medical staff) to explain all suspicious incidents?
Quite a coincidence!
#LucyLetby
Is a text message of a 26-year-old nurse coming back from an Ibiza holiday with a bang evidence of murder?
One could argue the Jury has been misled by a credible prosecution team when using such relevant information to prove a nurse has been harming babies
Thoughts?
#LucyLetby
@NASwinnerton
The insulin cases have so many unanswered questions & inconsistencies. In the closing speech, the defence said "Lucy Letby would have needed Nostradamus ability to kill". I recommend reading about it, soon we will write about it on FB in more detail & post a link
“The truth is elsewhere, and that at the very least needs to be looked at.” There is “no evidence of a crime” in
#LucyLetby
’s case and the prosecution’s use of statistics was “complete crock,” says John O’Quigley, professor of statistical science at UCL"
Here is a TED talk worth watching till the very end. 🤐🙊
I believed in Shaken Baby Syndrome until science showed I was wrong | Waney Squier | TEDxWandsworth (Waney Squier | TEDxWandsworth) via
@TEDTalks
There are a number of issues with Dr Evans acting as an investigator and as an Expert Witness, some so obvious that the prosecution agreed he stepped over the line for one - baby C.
See below and para 110 of the appeal ruling.
Thank you for your suggestions Paul Thomas
@PaulTho58326895
.
The CPS has IMHO excellent guideliness for Expert Witnesses. However, I suspect the expert witnesses for the Prosecution have not fullly complied with all the necessary requirements. For example, they have not
Here is
@thetimes
, 1st to report about the baby deaths in Feb 2017, if there were similarities in symptoms but could be explained by some other reason than murder, it should've been part of the table. It done;t need a statistician, it's common sense & simply unfair to most of us.
Asked a good question on Times Radio about six baby deaths that may have made evidence of the Lucy Letby chart more mixed. I believe (if anyone can correct me great) it would only water down the chart of 25 attacks if there was a suspected attack in the case of those six babies