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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Hallelujah, there is a God up in heaven after all!
Yes there is a God.
His pappy – either Castro or Pierre – were both Communist tyrants (in different ways). Apples and trees.
Truck Fudeau. Totalitarian Rona fascist, a drama teacher, a guy who ran from the Freedom convoy pleading he was ill with the fake Rona, a corrupt grafter, open borders fanatic, queer tranny lover, anti-Catholic who presided over the destruction of 100 churches thanks to his fake news claims that ‘Residential schools’ murdered ‘Indians’.
In 8 years he deconstructed what was once a great nation.
You mean a corrupt grifter, obviously. There’s nothing graft about Trudeau.
National Holiday for Canada:
Trudeau Geau Day
One of the most vile neoliberal specimens. Worse than Macron, Milliband, Sarkozy. In the same rank as Blair and Ardern. Starmer is more of a mulfunctioning puppet. He stayed too late after the coach went home. I would imagine that in the future Trudeau will have more serious things to cry about. You can feel where things are going and so can he.
Surely MALfunctioning puppet, he is a walking disaster area?
Two dreadful Justin’s gone in one day yay
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How 2TK must be quivering with fear over a revenge attack from the Donald ….. bring it on.
Justin time? Well done to Donald Trump for the steep sanctions threat against Justin’s Canada and for describing Justin as the ‘Governor’ of Canada – to be America’s 51st State. Hopefully Greenland will be 52nd.
I remember he ordered mounted policemen to ride over some disbaled woman. If you are capable of things like that then you have openly betrayed your own humanity. Like Jesus said, depart from me I never knew you.
Anyone who might do such a thing must be an awful and cowardly bully.
Isn’t that how Justin behaved during his 9 years in office?
Leave him alone in a bar with a few dozen of those Truck Drivers he tried to ruin…..no time limit and no repercussions.
Can we have a camera in there so we can watch?
Cue for the establishment to rally and bestow on him one of those ridiculous awards (a knighthood perhaps) for his service to world government during covid. Or perhaps he’ll be given a position in some globalist organisation. These scoundrels will do something to protect one of their own. Watch for it. It’s coming.
Nay, bloody hell Stewart, “scoundrel,” I think that’s a bit limp. Not the way I would refer to that genocidal maniac.
Tears of a clown.
Tears of a clown.
Whenever Canada is mentioned, I think of this man here: Polish Pastor Chases Cops Out of Church on Easter Weekend: ‘Get Out! You Nazis!’
If he runs to the WEF then I do so hope that the whole lot of them hang together.
Macron is the last of the lockdown fanatics still in power. I’m not sure if lockdown in France was more severe or longer than elsewhere but the restrictions on the unvaccinated were some of the harshest in the World as the things Macron said about the unvaccinated were among the worse things any leader said.
Good, but sadly 5 years too late for the Canadian people (the real ones, not the recent imports).
Still …. I expect Schwab will find a cosy “globalist” role for Mr Blackface.
The Government must call an election by October 2025. This fake resignation leaves Trudeau in power until the party chooses a new leader. He has also prorogued Parliament until the end of March thus preventing the house from voting on a non confidence vote he would lose triggering an election. So this fake resignation will leave Trudeau in power for many months during which he will feed his corrupt friends and globalist elite and fake charities billions more of Canada’s tax dollars. A word of advice NEVER elect a pathological NARCISSIST with a famous last name to power. The destruction he has caused in Canada is just unbelievable.
Strange, the approval rating looks like Starmer too!
Good riddance to Trudeau. As for Pierre Poilievre, I’ll reserve judgement on if he is a wunderkind depending on how much interest he takes in reversing the M.A.I.D. laws which are legally targeting the most vulnerable Canadians for state facilitated killing.
Astonishing. Justice at last for the courageous Canadian Freedom Convoy, which inspired so many others in the nations of the West.
But since he’s not actually clearing off until next autumn, there’s still plenty of time for him to wreak havoc.