Lucy Letby was not present when a baby she was convicted of killing was harmed, a BBC investigation has found. The Telegraph reports.
Letby was found guilty of killing a boy known as Baby C by injecting air into his system at the Countess of Chester Hospital in June 2016.
During the trial, prosecution experts said an X-ray of the baby showed a “marked gaseous distention of the stomach”, which they suggested was due to a deliberate pumping of gas into his feeding tube.
However, the X-ray was taken on June 12th, when Letby was not working and had not been on shift since the morning of June 10th, BBC’s File on 4 programme reported.
Commenting on the BBC report, James Phillips, a former Government science advisor for Boris Johnson, said: “Serious doubts have emerged about whether there was ever a crime at all.
“Pivotal evidence for one of the Lucy Letby murder convictions is deeply flawed, as she appears to have never met the baby at the time it was obtained.
“She had never been on shift. This, quite obviously, calls into question whether the conviction it underpins is safe.”
Baby C later collapsed and died when Letby was on the night shift on June 13-14th, with the prosecution implying that the baby had finally been killed by another injection of air causing his stomach to balloon, crushing his lungs so he could not breathe.
In his opening argument, prosecution barrister Nicholas Johnson KC said: “Baby C was killed by air inserted into his stomach via the nasogastric tube, not into his bloodstream. It was a variation or refinement of a theme Lucy Letby had started [with earlier babies].”
During the trial, defence barrister Ben Myers KC highlighted that Letby had not been on shift when the X-ray was taken, but in summing up the judge did not remind the jury that she was not present and pointed to the radiologist’s evidence that there was a “massive gaseous dilation in the stomach”.
Worth reading in full.
The BBC investigation report can be read here.
Other areas of concern raised by the experts who spoke to File on 4 concerned allegations of insulin poisoning and liver damage.
According to the BBC, Professor Geoff Chase from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand said that, based on his and his colleague’s modelling, “significantly higher quantities of insulin would be needed to harm babies F and L, and to generate insulin levels seen in their test results. In the case of Baby L they calculated it could be as much as 20-80 times more”.
On the liver damage, a leading senior perinatal pathologist (who asked not to be identified because of the controversial nature of the case) said she “agrees with the original post-mortem on Baby O – that his liver injury and death were by natural causes”. She said “she has seen this kind of liver damage at least three times in her career. Each time there were natural causes”.
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Scapegoat for the corrupt and incompetent NHS…
It’ll be us tax payers paying for he huge compensation when she’s released…
I thought you were leaving DS?
That was posted before the multi parrotting of the bs narrative.
So stfu..
There’s absolutely nothing on this site that I can’t find on msm.. It’s nothing but pretence.. Day after day, week after week, year after year of nothing but parrotting of the forced narrative by the same old people, saying nothing new, all while the likes of you think you’re being a Sceptic…… Clueless
“So stfu.”
Your rudeness amply displays the thugish level at which you seek to engage with the members of this site but I can assure you it is not considered acceptable by the vast majority.
“There’s absolutely nothing on this site that I can’t find on msm.. It’s nothing but pretence.”
Which naturally begs the question, ‘why are you here?’
If you can find the same information in the Main Stream Media as DS provides then surely your shekels would be better spent in a local town centre boozer where perhaps opinions might not be so nuanced as are found here. That is not meant to wish you good riddance as I am sure DS Editorial welcome contributions from whatever sources, no matter how humble, but surely some self reflection is warranted, no?
The Daily Sceptic has developed over the four years I have been a member / subscriber and I believe it is a site which supports lively, informed, opinionated but always well mannered discussions. We do not all share the same opinions, fortunately but surely in these frankly dark and dangerous times the ability to talk freely but politely is to be welcomed and supported.
At least you have provided a degree of low level comedy via your postings but I really do think you should be looking elsewhere for people with whom you can vociferate. There must be outlets available somewhere.
Toodle pip.
Epic.
Evidently the kind of person whose picnic is totally devoid of sandwiches.
It’s the fact he’s literally spent money to come on a site he’s previously ( in different guises ) and continuously moans about, saying “I’m done” then just comes back with a different name time and again…What rational person goes on like that?
Thanks Mogs.
She’s as guilty as hell.
The transcripts I have read indicate that Ms Letby is wholly innocent but there are two or three doctors who appear to have been negligent and that’s a generous assessment.
And you know this how?
Her guilt was shown by the fact that she was always on duty when the babies died, except when she wasn’t… something a little inconsistent there.
Statistical rounding error…
Yes didn’t Norman Fenton carry out some analysis about various doctors and nurses attending the ward and basically showed anyone could have been responsible? Looks like a cover up to me of NHS incompetence.
The modelling shows that this could never happen – so that proves it.
(whatever it is)
Experts. Don’t you just love them. Poor Sally Clark all over again perhaps.
The NHS seem certain she’s guilty though –
https://www.england.nhs.uk/2023/08/commenting-on-the-verdict-in-the-lucy-letby-trial/
Ruth May needs to keep her trap shut.
The NHS are still pushing the bloody C1984 “vaccines.” So far I have received two text messages “inviting” me and a further email.
Two days ago I had to attend A & E. The tannoy is still pumping out messages telling people to wear masks, socially distance and wash hands – unbelievable given the damages the first two have caused.
One thing’s for sure. It’s quite certain that particularly with their jab rhetoric the NHS has caused and will continue to cause the death of thousands more than Lucy Letby ever has.