No medical evidence to support Lucy Letby’s conviction, expert panel says
Letby’s lawyer claims report demolishes case against her and provides ‘overwhelming evidence’ her conviction is unsafe
Lucy Letby is the victim of “one of the major injustices of modern times”, it has been claimed, after an international panel of experts found no evidence she had murdered or harmed any of the babies she was accused of attacking.
The panel concluded that the 17 newborns whom Letby was charged with harming had suffered a catalogue of “bad medical care” or deteriorated as a result of natural causes at the Countess of Chester hospital in north-west England.
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