The Thirlwall Inquiry is due to hear its final submissions from its core participants including the families of Letby’s victims, the Countess of Chester, its former senior leaders, NHS England and other health agencies. On 17 March, inquiry chair Lady Justice Thirlwall revealed she had received a request from former senior executives at the Countess … Read more
Dr Dewi Evans, who was the prosecution’s main expert witness, maintains that those claiming Letby was wrongly convicted are mistaken or have misunderstood the way the case was put. He told the Sunday Times that Dr Lee’s paper was not a crucial cornerstone of the prosecution case. “It’s a useful paper — I don’t want … Read more
In the months after Letby was convicted, rumblings emerged about the safety of her convictions. Statisticians questioned the logic behind the staffing chart, while some medical experts said the tests that showed babies had been given insulin externally could be unreliable. Several journalists, including Private Eye columnist and physician Dr Phil Hammond and New Yorker … Read more
Letby applied for leave to appeal the 14 convictions from her original trial and the additional attempted murder. In May 2024, the Court of Appeal dismissed her application to overturn her original convictions on the grounds that prosecution evidence was flawed. Canadian neonatologist Dr Shoo Lee, who in the 1980s co-authored an academic paper on … Read more
New Delhi: Israel on Saturday said it had recovered the body of a Thai hostage taken into Gaza during the October 7 Hamas-led attack, as its military campaign across the strip intensified, killing at least 95 people in the last 24 hours, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The body of Thai national Nattapong Pinta, … Read more