5 Key Questions Hanging Over the Lucy Letby ‘Killer Nurse’ Case
Ms. Letby, a neonatal nurse in England found guilty of murdering seven babies, has lost a fresh appeal bid. A growing number of experts have raised concerns about the evidence.
Here are some of the concerns raised about the case:
Statistics were misused, many experts say.
Doubts have emerged over the ‘air embolism’ evidence.
Insulin poisoning evidence has been questioned by clinical experts.
Psychologists have questions about a note that was treated as a confession.
There were longstanding concerns about the neonatal unit.
When Lucy Letby, a former nurse in a neonatal unit at a hospital in northern England, was
found guilty last year of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others, Britain reacted with horror. She was convicted of attempting to murder another baby in a
retrial of one charge earlier this year.
The prosecution told the jury in the two trials that she had harmed babies through a macabre range of attacks: injecting them with air, overfeeding them with milk, infusing air into their gastrointestinal tracts and poisoning them with insulin.
Ms. Letby, 34, was handed
15 mandatory life sentences. But in the months since, a growing number of experts have suggested that the evidence used to convict her was flawed. Serious questions were first raised in a
13,000-word New Yorker article in May. Since then, dozens of statisticians and medical experts have expressed concerns.
Ms. Letby has always maintained her innocence. In May, her request to appeal her original murder convictions was denied. She was separately
convicted in July in a retrial of one count of attempted murder, and on Thursday judges
rejected her request to appeal that conviction.
Here’s what to know about the main concerns raised about Ms. Letby’s case.
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