A new audit of baby deaths at Lucy Letby’s hospital reveals that many of the most sudden declines happened when she wasn’t on duty. The Mail on Sunday has the story.
The mortality data, which has been compiled from multiple sources, including Freedom of Information requests, is understood to show a broader spike in deaths during the period focused on by the police investigation – bolstering Letby’s argument that the fatalities were caused by wider failures of care at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
A new legal team, led by Mark McDonald KC, has been instructed to take Letby’s case to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates potential miscarriages of justice and can refer cases back to the Court of Appeal for consideration.
Letby is serving 15 whole-life orders after being found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to end the lives of seven more between 2015 and 2016. But several respected experts have come forward to express their concern about the reliability of the evidence.
Mr. McDonald, who says the case could be the “biggest miscarriage of justice in the history of the United Kingdom”, is also focusing on the role of Dr. Dewi Evans, the chief prosecution witness, whose evidence was pivotal to Letby’s conviction.
Last month, following a Radio 4 investigation, Dr. Evans changed his mind about how Ms. Letby is said to have killed one of her victims, after it emerged that the nurse was not even at the hospital where the baby died at the time an apparently damning X-ray was taken.
Last week, the Mail on Sunday revealed that a judge in a previous case had dismissed Dr. Evans’s evidence as “worthless”.
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