For my sins decided to endure their press conference in full.
Firstly has anyone checked on Perer Elston and colleagues as nobody asked him about statistics. He didn’t speak at all. Hope he’s ok
Mark McDick does say they are submitting the application to appeal this week. He has a draft ready.
He says it will be a single judge who will decide if they will allow the court of appeal to reopen it. I presume this will be the same as earlier applications that if the single judge says no then they can still request permission directly with the appeal court.
Reporter: “and do the judges know this is happening”
MMcD “they do now”
Lots of laughs, because it’s hilarious isn’t it?
He also says they are making an application to the CCRC at the same time with the two reports and that’s a long process.
I understand now that it’s Dr Svilena Dimitriova and Dr Neil Aiton who are working on the official reports that will go before a judge (they hope) and they were not making further statements which is why he got Richard Taylor and Roger Norwich up instead. And their opinions seem based entirely on the reports from the defence and their previous interpretation of what was reported from trial. I think McDick thought they would help him answer clinical questions but I’d be surprised if he uses them again, especially Taylor who seemed to go completely off script with his accusations against Dr B, his profile of serial killers (Letby had nothing in her history and he friends are shocked)
Roger, retired paediatrian, then goes on to claim - Dr Evans has broken criminal procedure rules. What credentials has he got in law to assert that view? He says Dr E would not be moved on his view. Except the whole basis of their complaint is that he did? Make it make sense.
Also claiming Dr E “worked with police creating theories” again just parroting absolute nonsense
All of them kept saying it’s unprecedented the amount of doctors/professionals coming forward to help them - but the whole case is fucking unprecedented isn’t it? Honestly you have the Letby case itself but i think the aftermath will become a case to study in itself for years to come.
Taylor blew my mind the most. I actually wonder if he’s ever spoken to the media directly before. He was not cautious about what he said at all (in terms of accusations - even McD had the sense to say you won’t hear me criticise the trial defence team because he knows it wouldn’t be a good look) and he completely confused the media with saying the insulin tests were ‘contaminated’ and results were ‘suspicious’. It’s clear from his stance what he meant by that was the blood sample was unreliable and the results were so obscure (his view) it was suspiciously inaccurate. But his poor communication meant the press had to clarify with him more than once if he was saying deliberately contaminated and criminally suspicious.
He also aserts you would expect air from air embolism to still be present on xray. But then says he’s not seen the X-rays 🫠 But must be large enough amount of air for it to cause harm. Whether the baby recovered or died it would show a large amount on xray . So he’s already decided the X-rays didn’t show enough air for it to be air embolism. When he hasn’t even seen them.
Finally my favourite thing he said and I quote
“The insulin result was ridiculously high. Obviously something suspicious about it”
You don’t say 🫠