Yet more on the Letby conviction, now around an expert for the prosecution.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/03/lucy-letby-case-expert-witness-peter-hindmarsh-was-under-fitness-to-practise-investigation-during-trial

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The Letby case sounds like yet another miscarriage of justice due to people failing at statistics.

We had an identical witch-hunt case against a nurse in the Netherlands, Lucia de Berk, who was exonerated.

Richard Gill, a mathematician who helped get de Berk freed, says the Letby case is a carbon copy: inquisitor style evidence seeking against a nurse, and lousy, fragile statistics on the biased data.

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/07/31/steeds-meer-mensen-twijfelen-of-de-beruchtste-kinderseriemoordenaar-van-het-vk-de-babys-echt-vermoord-heeft-a4901812

#Law #Letby #Statistics #Mathematics #Medicine #UK #Britain

Lucy Letby has been framed for multiple murders & attempted murders which never happened. Her life sentences join England's long list of wrongful convictions. Other nurses live in fear of being similarly stitched up as the scapegoat for underfunded, understaffed hospitals.

Michele Worden is a former advanced neonatal nurse practitioner (ANNP) at the #CountessOfChester Hospital’s neonatal unit, where #Letby worked. Here Worden describes a unit “not fit for purpose”.

https://www.nursingtimes.net/midwifery-and-neonatal/former-nurse-speaks-out-about-failings-on-lucy-letbys-unit-12-06-2025/

“There was no medical evidence to support malfeasance causing death or injury in any of the 17 cases in the trial,” the report concludes. “Death or injury of affected infants were due to natural causes or errors in medical care.”

Just because people wanted someone to blame doesn't mean there was someone to blame. I said this last September (https://fedimon.uk/@AlisonW/113101949015621559 ) and still do; there is no direct evidence against #Letby.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/04/lucy-letby-convictions-what-did-the-expert-panel-find

I express no opinion on the probability of Letby being able to successfully appeal against her conviction, but I will observe that if she does, then a lot of people who have given evidence to the public inquiry about how she was able to get away with it and why nobody stopped her are going to feel pretty silly.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyv3jlzme90o

#Letby #LucyLetby

The desire to have someone to blame for a series of events does not mean that there actually was someone to blame.

A hospital suffering a superbug, doctor shortages and a neonatal unit ‘out of its depth’ and selective reporting alongside the incorrect use of statistics meant that Letby's verdict is very unsafe and should be reviewed properly.

#Letby #CoC

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/sep/08/a-superbug-doctor-shortages-and-a-neonatal-unit-out-of-its-depth-failures-at-lucy-letby-hospital-revealed?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

More on the Letby case - innocent or not I don't know, but the apparent attitude to evidence and "there could be no other possible explanation" were so concerning that I'm really glad they're looking deeper into the situation.

"Our investigation reveals a hospital unit operating beyond its skills and capacity – one that was understaffed and suffering from low morale, lacking the expertise to deal with babies with serious needs, [...]"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/sep/08/a-superbug-doctor-shortages-and-a-neonatal-unit-out-of-its-depth-failures-at-lucy-letby-hospital-revealed

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More unraveling of the putative evidence in the Letby case.

"Scribbled notes by the neonatal nurse Lucy Letby, used to help convict her of murdering seven babies, were written on the advice of professionals as a way of dealing with extreme stress, the Guardian has learned."

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/sep/03/i-am-evil-i-did-this-lucy-letbys-so-called-confessions-were-written-on-advice-of-counsellors

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I'm so glad people are still demanding attention for the Letby case (was always so clearly a potential "Lucia de B. Part 2") - "Possible negligent deaths that were presumed to be murders could result in an incomplete investigation of the management response to the crisis”.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/27/lucy-letby-inquiry-should-be-postponed-changed-experts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia_de_Berk_case

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