Lucy Letby and the medical consultants who imagine she is harmless – podcast | Lucy Letby

Lucy Letby was convicted for the homicide and tried homicide of greater than a dozen infants. She has been known as the worst youngster serial killer the UK had seen. However even earlier than the trial was over consultants had begun elevating considerations about her conviction.

Then, final week, got here a bombshell press convention through which a panel of famend neonatal consultants stated they believed not simply that Letby’s conviction was unsafe – however that there was no homicide or deliberate hurt. As a substitute they stated the deaths had been brought on by a sequence of things together with understaffing and an absence of abilities on the ward to deal with the infants they have been caring for. So what’s the proof that the panel was taking a look at and why accomplish that many questions appear to swirl across the Letby trial?

Josh Halliday, the Guardian’s North of England editor, reported on the trial and heard the proof put earlier than the jury. He stated: “Till final week, I feel I believed, on the steadiness of chances, that Lucy Letby was most likely responsible.” Nonetheless, the press convention raised some severe questions which have made him rethink his opinion.

The investigative reporter Felicity Lawrence has been inspecting the case for 18 months and tells Helen Pidd about what the ramifications of a retrial might be. “I feel if it does end up, as seems to be more and more seemingly, to be an enormous, historic miscarriage of justice, there’ll be questions that must be answered by many establishments.”