A lawyer who defends Lucy Letby on Thursday gave the “fresh” medical evidence to an independent body aimed at cleaning the name of the former nurse, whose sentences have made her the most prolific serial killer of children in the modern history of the United Kingdom.
Letby, 35, celebrates 15 life sentences for the death of babies in a neonatal unit in the northwest of England, where he worked between 2015 and 2016.
Letby was convicted of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to kill another seven in the Neonatal Unit of the Countess of Chester.
His lawyer Mark McDonald delivered the findings of an International Panel of Pediatric Pediators and Specialists of 14 people to the offices of the Criminal Case Review Commission (CCRC), which investigates possible spontaneous abortions of justice.
The CCRC has the power to send cases to the Court of Appeal if it determines that there may be a spontaneous abortion of justice.
The doctors, all the leaders in their field who reviewed the evidence without payment, presented their findings in London in February.
“In our opinion, medical opinion, medical evidence does not support the murder in any of these cases, only natural causes and poor medical care,” said Canadian retired Dr. Shoo Lee.
Letby, who has always maintained his innocence, was accused of attacking babies by various media, including insulin and injecting poisoning and injecting air into his blood torrents, which caused an air embolism that blocked blood supply and caused sudden and unexpected collapses.
McDonald will also deliver a separate report to the offices of the commission in Birmingham of seven other doctors who claim that the results of insulin tests in two babies were not reliable.
A test used in both cases “can lead to falsely high insulin results” due to the presence of antibodies that can interfere with the result, doctors say in the new report.
“Our unavoidable conclusion is that this evidence significantly undermines the validity of the claims made on the insulin and peptide tests presented in the court.”
McDonald said the two reports constituted “new evidence” that “totally undermines the case of prosecution in the trial.”
Letby lost two offers last year to challenge his sentences in the Court of Appeals.
