All the babies that Lucy Letby was convicted of killing actually died of natural causes, often due to poor medical care, and were not murdered, a panel of 14 medical experts has concluded.
This morning the panel of experts in the care of newborn babies presented “significant new medical evidence” in Letby’s case. Here are some excerpts from the Telegraph’s coverage:
Dr Shoo Lee, an eminent Canadian neonatologist, and Head of the Division of Neonatology at the University of Toronto, is now giving evidence about each of the babies.
His research paper from 1989 was a key plank in the prosecution’s case that some of the babies had died from air embolism.
Dr Lee had found that in some cases of air embolism, the skin goes blue with bright pink blood vessels standing out – a skin discolouration that doctors claimed was present in some of the Letby babies.
Crucially, the prosecution never contacted Dr Lee to check if their interpretation of his work was correct. It wasn’t.
Dr Lee has since found that injecting air into a vein never gives that pattern on the skin.
“If that was true it would be the first case ever described,” he told today’s press conference.
The doctors at the Countess of Chester are not being cast in a good light:
The new medical review suggests that many of the babies died from sub-optimal care at the hospital.
In the case of one baby, Dr Lee said that doctors had failed to spot a dangerous bacterial infection called Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and so failed to give life-saving antibiotics.
“This was a preventable death,” he told the press conference.
According to the panel of experts, another baby died after getting a blood clot when doctors left lines in the body without an infusion.
The review panel believes a blood clot built up at the spot where the line entered the body, and when the infusion was switched on, it, dislodged and travelled to the brainstem, causing sudden collapse.
In the case of Baby K, Letby was convicted of attempting to murder the infant by dislodging her tube. But Dr Lee said the tube was never inserted correctly by a doctor.
“The consultant did not understand the basics of resuscitation, air leak and mechanical ventilation,” he said.
New data on the insulin charges suggests the babies may not have been poisoned at all:
Letby was convicted of attempting to murder two babies by poisoning their feeding bags with insulin.
The convictions were based on blood test readings that showed high insulin levels but low c-peptide levels in the blood – a clear sign that artificial insulin has been administered.
However Professor Geoff Chase, a world expert in insulin, from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. says that the prosecution and police were basing their readings on ratios from adults and children.
In fact, he says the ratio of c-peptide to insulin was completely normal for a pre-term infant.
This is important because even the defence accepted that the two babies had been poisoned. It just said it wasn’t Letby that was responsible. Now it appears they may not have been poisoned at all.
The panel found the babies all died of natural causes and bad medical care rather than murder:
Dr Lee told the hearing: “In summary, we did not find murders.
“In all cases death or injury were due to natural causes or just bad medical care.
“Lucy was charged with seven murders and seven attempted murders. In our opinion, the medical opinion, the medical evidence doesn’t support murder in any of these babies – just natural causes and bad medical care.
“Our full report will go to Lucy’s barrister later this month and then it will be up to him and the courts to decide what next to do.”
It has further emerged this morning that Lucy Letby was charged with fewer than half of the baby deaths that occurred at the Countess of Chester Hospital during the unexpected mortality spike, casting further doubt on her guilt. The Telegraph has more.
Data released by the Thirlwall Inquiry, which is examining how the harm could have been prevented, revealed there were 18 deaths linked to the hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.
But Letby was only charged in connection with eight of the deaths.
During her trial, the jury was shown a chart that placed the neonatal nurse at each one of the babies’ deaths or collapses.
But the chart did not include the extra 10 deaths that occurred during that period, which were far more than the usual “one to three” expected annually on the neonatal unit.
It is the first time the figures have been released and show that the hospital death rate was abnormally high, even without the Letby deaths.
Sir David Davis, the former Brexit secretary, said: “The chart released by the Thirlwall Inquiry shows that the original evidence shown to the jury was, at the very least, misleading.
“Letby ended up being charged with fewer than half of the baby deaths at the Countess of Chester, the rest of which are not explained adequately by the prosecution’s case.”
Critics of Letby’s conviction say that there were other explanations for a high death rate at the neonatal unit in 2015 and 2016 including a lack of staff, sub-optimal care and an increase in admissions of more premature and sicker babies.
The 10 babies which Letby was not accused of killing died from various causes including congenital issues present at birth, prematurity, sepsis, pneumonia and a lack of oxygen, the new documents show.
A review by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) at the time warned that there should have been more doctors available, given the vulnerable nature of premature babies. Staff had contacted the management team to warn the unit was “at breaking point”.
New documents released by the Thirlwall Inquiry also show how the Countess of Chester refused to take part in research to improve outcomes for premature babies.
Prof Neena Modi, the former president of the RCPCH, who leads the UK National Neonatal Research Database (NNRD) said the programme called ‘Opti-Prem’ sought to find out if babies were better off in intensive care units.
“The purpose of the research was to assess, for babies born at 27 to 31 weeks gestation and admitted to a neonatal unit in England, whether care in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit versus care in a Local Neonatal Unit affected survival and key morbidities,” Prof Modi said in a statement to the inquiry.
“The Countess of Chester was the only hospital to decline participation.”
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I can’t put into words the disgust I feel at my country and the treasonous cretins who ‘run’ it.
Current unsustainable immigration is an anti-white racist weapon being used by Starmer and the Far Left to destroy the social fabric of UK communities whilst they openly display anti-Israeli racism, anti-semitism and hate on UK streets against false flag fake 100 Far Right protests which were never ever organised.
I am just waiting to read the Alistair Campbell style ‘sexed-up’ dodgy fake intelligence dossier to claim there really really were going to be 100 locations for fake Far Right protests.
It may also be a means of gerrymandering by importing legal and illegal immigrants as future voters in droves to assist the Left and Far Left’s efforts to win elections similar to the proposals to lower the voting age to 16.
Pat Geary – Talk TV – The story of working class England
https://x.com/pat_alpha/status/1822511871439810738
Vote Marxist Socialism, get Marxist Socialism.
The problem is most people today think of Labour in terms of Tony Blair’s New Labour.
It was rebranded New Labour, and relaunched as the Thatcher-Lite Party for a reason, because the Blairlings understood old Labour would never get elected again after the mess it made and the antics of its stalwarts in the Labour movement, 1945 to 1979.
Now people can see why.
Nothing new.. 77th brigade been about for years.
Tyler Kay was jailed for 38 months at Northampton Crown Court for publishing written material which was threatening, abusive or insulting, intending thereby to stir up racial hatred
[…]
Kay, 26, was arrested and convicted within 36 hours of posting on X calling for ‘mass deportation now’, adding: ‘Set fire to all the f*******hotels full of the b******** for all I care… If that makes me racist, so be it.’
The wife of a Tory councillor appeared in court on Saturday charged with publishing written material to stir up racial hatred in relation to a social media message calling for attacks on asylum seekers.
[…]
It is alleged that Connolly, from Parkfield Avenue, Northampton, posted on X hours after the Southport knife killings saying: ‘Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the b******* for all I care…’
Connolly, who works as a childminder, bluntly added: ‘If that makes me racist, so be it.’
Funny that two different people are being prosecuted for posting exactly identical texts on Xtter. And then, there’s statement itself: Someone has been jailed for over three years for calling for deportation of illegal immigrants and further stating that he wouldn’t care if hotels filled with them would burn down. That’s sort-of a reverse Rwanda plan put into practice in Keir-shaped Britain: Instead of deporting illegals to Rwanda, people who ask for them being deported are being deported prison for years to make them see the error of their ways. But this obiviously differing treatment of different people who broke different laws is certainly no evidence of two tier policing.
From what I can see in what you wrote, a person was jailed, not for telling people to do something, but for saying they wouldn’t care if they did it. If a person says they don’t care what happens to people I cannot see how this is a crime.
The Labour election victory has possibly convinced the people controlling the civil service that they can take the gloves off now, openly push through with whatever policies they want, regardless of the nominal government and prosecute and jail to their hearts content whomever they don’t like.
The absurd “seconday CO₂ emissions of drilling for oil” judgement would come to mind here. If stuff like that is allowed to stand despite it doesn’t make the least bit of sense, judges condemning peope à la “You go to jail because I want people like going to jail, logic and logic be damned for all I care!” isn’t really substantially different.
^^
logic and law
“Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?” I suppose is the basis.
But oddly that fat “comic” saying battery acid should be thrown over Nigel Farage was ‘just a joke’ and people would have taken it in that context’.
Two tier justice/policing.
The sentiments expressed by this lady can be found in the 10th century epic poem, Armes Prydein, also known as The Great Prophesy of Britain.
The writer envisages the Welsh, as the people dispossessed by the Saxons, returning the latter to their homelands. A fantasy that had, perhaps, become an existential necessity for an alienated people.
Considering the identical wording of the two texts, this must either have been something written by somebody else these two people shared or a single, third party using both X accounts to the post the same text twice. Which leads to the not entirely unimportant question: Is it perhaps possible to jail people for hacking their Twitter accounts? Or having their Twitter accounts hacked?
They should have pled innocent and gone for a jury trial. I expect they were strong armed into pleading guilty – lighter sentence.
The guys probably was. But the “wife of a tory councillor” didn’t plead and the text didn’t contain anything on her being sentenced to something.
Nigel Farage doing his straight-talking thing on Fox News ( 6mins );
”Keir Starmer poses the biggest threat to free speech we’ve seen in our history.”
https://x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1822698420240355417
Meanwhile, this might get me into deep doo-doo and even get me extradited;
https://x.com/TickleTexts/status/1822539211729228176
Meanwhile ( again ), someone who’s definitely up the creek without a paddle. He must be a good age now, I didn’t know he still had it in him. Heartening to see he’s as patriotic as ever though. Maybe he’ll leave a little ‘hate crime’ gift in Starmer’s shoe;
”Things aren’t looking good for Larry as the investigation continues,
He denies any kind of racial hatred but new footage has emerged of him assaulting the local black cat.
”Larry insists it was self defence and that he has been set up.”
Breaking News : Larry the “Far Right” cat has been arrested this morning for shitting in the garden at Downing Street.
He has been remanded in custody and is being investigated for his links to EDL.
Sources are blaming Tommy Robinson for inciting Larry.” #FreeLarry
https://x.com/Mr_Scott_Cheggs/status/1822571736971268460
Star quality Mogs
Cheers, huxtable.
I’m also enjoying how Elon Musk is so supportive of the British people, regularly posting tweets about his concerns for what’s happening to free speech in the UK and highlighting the unjust ways in which ordinary, concerned citizens are having their rights quashed. As per the video of the wretched Humza Yousaf I shared recently, going full ‘attack mode’ on Musk, accusing him of all sorts, things are hotting up;
”Elon Musk brands Humza Yousaf a “scumbag” after the former Scottish First Minister unleashed a tirade against the 𝕏 owner and threatened legal action after being branded “Super, super racist.”
Yousaf launched an online tirade against Musk claiming he is allowing “White Supremacy” to flourish on the platform with Musk responding by highlighting the politicians history of race-baiting comments, including his infamous anti white speech in the Scottish parliament.
Now the politician has claimed he is considering legal action whilst calling Musk “the most dangerous man in the world.”
Musk responded on X saying:
“He’s obviously super racist against white people. I dare that scumbag to sue me. Go ahead, make my day …”
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1822651576650973511
The video in question, for those who haven’t seen it. Musk is ”one of the most dangerous men on the planet” apparently. Yes, be afraid, be very afraid….of free speech and dissidents communicating with one another en masse, around the globe! The truth won’t set you free, it’ll most likely get you banged up if you’re living in communist-run Brave New World, formerly known as Great Britain.
Plonker. Crikey, how threatened does this joker feel?? lol;
https://x.com/Brian_Kennedy/status/1822653324115771734
Brilliant. Thanks a bundle Mogs. Love it.
Yet again, the Daily Mail repeats the false mantra of ONLY ONE CAUSE of the riots, and no mention of Armed Muslim Gangs rampaging through English streets:
” false rumours were spread on social media blaming a Muslim migrant for the attack.”
Nobody rioted for that. The protests were by British Patriots and Ordinary People against Mass Third World Immigration nobody voted for, years of sexual harassment and rape of British women and children by Muslim gangs, horrific immigrant crimes like the Mass Stabbing of 13 British People by an Ethnic African son of African immigrants, and the collapse of Britain’s infrastructure caused by Mass Immigration from the Third World, the vast majority of whom are Muslim Men of Military Age.
The government’s response would make North Korea’s “Caligula” Dictator proud. He regards his own North Korean people as “the enemy” to be crushed, starved, and forced to worship his family as “gods”.
Powerful comment
It’s good to know the lengths the police will go in order to prosecute criminals, if they are so.
I look forward to similar service if I suffer from any criminal acts.
No idea why anyone is worrying about this kind of stuff when the whole of Europe is on the brink:
‘We have recorded from Nikopol that the Russian occupiers have started a fire on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
Currently, radiation levels are within norm. However, as long as the Russian terrorists maintain control over the nuclear plant, the situation is not and cannot be normal.
Since the first day of its seizure, Russia has been using the Zaporizhzhia NPP only to blackmail Ukraine, all of Europe, and the world.
We are waiting for the world to react, waiting for the IAEA to react. Russia must be held accountable for this’
Well done, comrades…..not…..
The fire is in a cooling tower, possibly caused by an Ukraine drone strike.
All the reactors at that plant are in cold shut-down and have been for some time, therefore they are no threat to anybody.
Manna from firkin heaven for plod. No need to be out patrolling, in fact the crimes they are chasing are ‘work from home’ jobs. Conversion rate – arrested, charged and sent down will be nigh on 100% because those arrested will be guilty at the point of arrest. No coppers get hurt. Absolutely bloody marvellous.
The sheer audacity of “authorities” to claim that there are “users accused of spreading false information and writing online content likely to incite violence” is mind blowing.
Would Chief Constable Inspector Officer Peter Piss Pot be able to prove that some dabs on a keyboard sparked a riot? No, I thought not.
Two tier Kneel’s Stalinist Britain. Welcome to the Gulag.
“likely to incite”???? —That covers everything the government want covered. There can be no criticism of anything whatsoever as in the governments opinion it is “likely to incite”—————If I say online “I hate Manchester United” and some people set fire to Old Trafford whose fault is that? Surely not mine.
Exactly
I just realised that this perfectly illustrates the warning by the great American Patriot Charlotte Iserbyt, author of “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America”, which exposed the Communist motto:
“TARGET THE RESISTERS”
No it isn’t worth reading in full. It’s the Mail and they use the propaganda phrase ‘far right mobs’ Which is a lie. The rioters were mostly Locals who were angry (and some were stupid and reckless).
Here are some great comments by the public on this, though:
— “So they are looking for most of the indigenous population?”
— “I hadn’t realised that Putin is our Prime Minister now?”
—“Will Keir Starmer be arrested for calling the British people far-right thugs?
— “Yes! He should be arrested under section 5 of the Public Order Act, for causing harassment, alarm and distress towards the English people.”
— “Does anybody understand what Labour stands for? Their voters are middle class entitled millennials and others with little life experience, most are snobs, many have average intelligence and got into Uni because of Blair. They support a now Far Left party whose leader is a Pablo Trotskyist, whose whole point is to support the working classes. This is back to front.”
— “What is the definition of ‘fuelling riots’? Can we have some clarity on that please.”
— “I’m pretty sure the government letting people murder children is what’s fuelling the riots.”
— “We have proper legal processes for entering this country, and if you by-pass those processes then you are committing an illegal act, and therefore you are a criminal and should be treated as such. That is not preaching hate, it is just what all law abiding citizens of this country expect. You don’t get put up in a four star hotel if you burgle a house, steal a car or go shoplifting, so why do you get put up in one for entering our country illegally?”
— “It’s a pity they’re not arresting MPs for trashing the UK.”
— “Britain. A special place for everyone – except the British.”
Name calling as “Far Right” is the politicisation of situations by the Liberal Progressive Prime Miniter attempting to imply that only those who are not Liberal Progressives would do such things.
Tyler Kay 26 , 38 months in Nick all sorted in 36 hours ! Unreal ! I hope the Judge has kids !!!
I can almost understand that encouraging people to “smash the f..k out of hotels” is probably some kind of criminal offence, but are people not responsible for their own actions? So how can a person who is supposed to be responsible for their own actions put the blame on someone else for their actions? If I stand in a street and shout “Hey everybody c’mon and burn down this building” and some people actually do that then if they are supposed to be responsible for their own actions how am I to blame for what they do? —-The law will say it is two different offences. (1) Committing the crime, (2) Inciting the crime. —But doesn’t this mean that the person committing the crime isn’t responsible for their own crimes after all as they can say they would never have done it had they not been incited?
It’s incitement. If you give people a reason or urge them to burn down a building and who otherwise would not do so, you are held responsible for your actions – incitement to commit a crime. They too of course are responsible for their actions in burning the building.
CPSHate crime
The law recognises five types of hate crime on the basis of:
Any crime can be prosecuted as a hate crime if the offender has either:
Or
Someone can be a victim of more than one type of hate crime.
These crimes are covered by legislation (Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and section 66 of the Sentencing Act 2020) which allows prosecutors to apply for an uplift in sentence for those convicted of a hate crime.
The police and the CPS have agreed the following definition for identifying and flagging hate crimes:
There is no legal definition of hostility so we use the everyday understanding of the word which includes ill-will, spite, contempt, prejudice, unfriendliness, antagonism, resentment and dislike.
Not quite right. The net is cast very much wider.
See extracts below CPS Racist and Religious Hate Crime – Prosecution Guidance Updated: 3 March 2022
These offences include activities which are criminally neutral like:
which could include a link to a video of muslim or anti-muslim violence or just sharing that online with others to inform them of what has been happening.
Query whether the BBC or other broadcasters are committing offences by their news broadcasts showing any such actions.
Incitement to racial hatred – sections 17-29 Public Order Act 1986
Offences & Maximum Penalty
s.18 – using threatening/abusive/insulting words or behaviour or displaying written material with intent/likely to stir up racial hatredCrown Court
– 7 years imprisonment
Magistrates’ court
– 6 months
s.19 – publishing/distributing written material which is threatening/abusive/insulting with intent/likely to stir up racial hatred
Crown Court
– 7 years imprisonment
Magistrates’ court
– 6 months
s.20 – public performance of a play involving threatening/abusive/insulting words/behaviour with intent/likely to stir up racial hatred
Crown Court
– 7 years imprisonment
Magistrates’ court
– 6 months
s.21 – distributing/showing/playing a recording of visual images or sounds that are threatening/abusive/ insulting with intent/likely to stir up racial hatred
Crown Court
– 7 years imprisonment
Magistrates’ court
– 6 months
s.22 – broadcasting or including programme in cable programme service involving threatening/abusive/insulting visual images or sounds with intent/likely to stir up racial hatred
Crown Court
– 7 years imprisonment
Magistrates’ court
– 6 months
s.23 – possessing racially inflammatory material/material for display/publication distribution with intent/likely to stir up racial hatred
Crown Court
-7 years imprisonment
Magistrates’ court
– 6 months
Incitement to religious hatred – sections 29B-29G Public Order Act 1986
Offence & Maximum Penalty
s.29B – use of words or behaviour / display of written material intended to stir up religious hatred
Crown Court
– 7 years imprisonment
Magistrates’ court
– 6 months
s.29C – publishing or distributing written material intended to stir up religious hatred
Crown Court
– 7 years imprisonment
Magistrates’ court
– 6 months
s.29D – public performance of a play intended to stir up religious hatred
Crown Court
– 7 years imprisonment
Magistrates’ court
– 6 months
s.29E – distributing/ showing/playing a recording intended to stir up religious hatred
Crown Court
– 7 years imprisonment
Magistrates’ court
– 6 months
s.29F – broadcasting/including a programme in a programme service intended to stir up religious hatred
Crown Court
– 7 years imprisonment
Magistrates’ court
– 6 months
s.29G – possession of inflammatory material intended to stir up religious hatred
Crown Court
– 7 years imprisonment
Magistrates’ court
– 6 months
Is it a hate offence for an elderly white/non white/muslim to write online – “I am frightened by what I have seen in this video of [white/muslim] thugs” and including a link to a video of Far Left or Far Right or muslims doing scary stuff?
Is the video “material intended to stir up religious hatred”?
And is the accompanying comment “likely to stir up” racial hatred etc?
Let’s face it. The Keystone Cops are more respected by the public. It takes on average 5 officers to arrest anyone. Nobody respects or cares about the police and the police know it
They are arresting people now?
Is that a new thing?
I thought they were so bad at finding criminals they hadn’t got any to arrest so the riots are a godsend to get the arrest record up.
Even when criminals like shoplifters the let them go because they have not stolen the daily quota to justify arrest.
So the determined shoplifter has to go out and steal more to get arrested.
I hear is it very tiring and some shoplifters are complaining about the strain on their mental health from all this pressure to keep stealing.
As the Good Book says, The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
And therefore: Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
How does The Daily Mail know that the mobs were all “Faaah Rite?” Did they ask everyone about their political beliefs, or have they just repeated Two-Tier-Keir’s propaganda?
Let me guess…..
The article title “Specialist Police Targeting “Hate Influencers” Blamed for Fuelling Riots” is ambiguous, but perhaps should mean ‘The Specialist Police Blamed for Fuelling Riots”. However much the police, CPS and govt assert there is no 2-tier policing, it is plainly evident there is, and has been for many years. Whilst this is not any excuse for violence, it was probably inevitable that such ‘establishment’ deafness to and treatment of the population would eventually boil over into protest. For the govt to then say it’s going to suppress free speech is a further step in the process of alienating the public that will itself increase that unrest. Through the unwillingness of curbing mass immigration of those who refuse to assimilate, and then telling us to ‘shut up’ or face arrest, is sowing the seed of the govt’s own destruction. If the govt refuses to open up national debate, and maintains the policy of ‘censorship with penalty’, they must and will be held responsible for the consequences.
As I have written on DS for months and possibly a year or so, it is all about creating tensions by ignoring the issues until violence erupts in order to justify clamping down on basic long established freedoms such a speech, travel, protest and the like.
The population has to be subjugated at all costs.
Starmer and Cooper are walking around singing la-la-la-la-la fingers in the ears talk to the hand.
CORRECTION: except for the far left who are free to run around our streets calling for genocide of the Israelis from the river to the sea, antisemitism and anti-white racism.
#TwoTierKier
When all the Far Right is in gaol, and the unrest and protests continue, then what?
Then what?
Starmer and the Far Left will continue working on maintaining unsustainable levels of mass migration to dilute the indigenous populations and in the expectation the migrants will be so grateful they will vote Labour and keep us in an authoritarian left regime for decades.