This is a very good analysis but those idiots will still be blinkered to the truth. BM tried very hard defending her and during the Appeals. He would have brought Dr Hall as an expert witness if there was the slightest chance it would have helped her case.My critique of that godawful Guardian article.....
- Scrawled notes” were barely mentioned during the trial itself
- “There was no forensic evidence to prove her guilt and no one saw Letby – who continues to maintain her innocence – causing harm” …. What forensic evidence would the author wish to see ? DNA and fingerprints would be of no relevance whatsoever, given that the defendant works at the crime scene. The fact that Letby wasn’t seen harming a child is neither here nor there, a serial killer would be apprehended quickly if someone saw them harming someone.
- Experts who are in the main anonymous and apart from Dr Hall, weren’t present in court and haven’t viewed any of the medical/clinical records for any of the babies. How can they express a credible professional opinion on the evidence given by Drs Evans and Bohin, let alone report them to the GMC for it, when they haven’t had access to this material?
- RCPCH: The RCPCH review was a “service level review” of the unit, not an investigation into causes of the deaths/collapses per se. It didn’t have access to the medical/clinical records of the babies & recommended an external, independent review of each unexpected neonatal death.
- Lack of apparent motive/psychological background: irrelevant- prosecution are not required to provide a motive
- Consultants didn’t go to the Cheshire Police, the hospital management (eventually) did via a letter/letters to the then Chief Constable.
- Richard Gill: A man who has in the recent past suggested that Beverley Allitt might be innocent, that many of the crimes of Harold Shipman were acts of euthanasia, that Dr John Gibbs (a consultant at the Countess) had been seen euthanising babies by Lucy Letby and who, while the first trial was ongoing, joked on social media about wanting to go into Manchester Crown Court with an AK47.
- Jane Hawdon: Told Ian Harvey she didn’t have time to complete a proper review of the deaths, recommended that four of them were forensically investigated
- Review after Jane Hawdon recommended a forensic review of four deaths- “different conclusions” to those reached by Evans- wouldn’t these have been available to Letby’s legal team and mentioned in court by Mr Myers if they were of benefit to her defence?
- Postmortems: The deaths of Beverley Allitt’s victims were also initially listed as natural causes after postmortems.
- Statistics: In her final twelve months working as a nurse, Lucy Letby was present for *all* of the 13 deaths on the NNU. If this was a case of scapegoating Letby as this article is clearly trying to suggest, then why was she not charged with more than the 7 which she was charged and subsequently convicted. In addition, Letby was acquitted of two counts of attempted murder charges that were on the chart and no verdicts were returned on several others.
- The only statistical element of the case was the chart that showed she was the only staff member present, exactly as was presented in the Allitt case.
- Dr Michael Hall: Stated in an article by the New Yorker magazine that he did not know what had caused the deaths/collapses. Why wasn’t this mentioned in the Guardian article?