The case of former British nurse Lucy Letby, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing seven newborns and trying to kill eight more in a neonatal unit in England, is now under review after a group of international medical experts who reexamined the evidence used in it. The trial concluded that none had been killed.
The president of the panel, Canadian neonatologist and professor at the University of Toronto Dr. Shoo LeeHe described the group's findings at a dramatic press conference in London on Tuesday, saying that they found no evidence that the crimes that Letby is fulfilling time.
“Our conclusion was that there was no medical evidence to support the embezzlement that caused injuries in any of the 17 cases in the trial,” he said, referring to the original position of damaging 17 babies.
He added: “In short, ladies and gentlemen, we found no murder.”
However, he said that the 14 -member panel found serious failures in the management of neonatal conditions at the Condesa del Chester hospital, where Letby worked in 2015 and 2016, and that there were errors in medical care. He also said that some of the babies' deaths were preventable.
In August 2023, a judge gave Letby the most severe possible sentence under British law, a lifetime order, which assured that Letby would remain in prison until his death. In a trial almost a year later, in July 2024, she was declared guilty of trying to kill a premature girl in the same hospital.
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Letby, 35, was the fourth woman to receive this prayer in the United Kingdom
During his trial, the court heard that he attacked the vulnerable newborns by various media, including the injection of air in their blood torrents that caused an air embolism that blocked the blood supply, between June 2015 and June 2016.
She was also condemned for damaging two babies poisoning them with insulin, pumping air to their power tube, feeding one with milk and causing trauma to the abdomen. However, no one saw Letby attack the seven babies who was declared guilty of murdering, nor did anyone witness the attempted murder of another seven.
She has maintained her innocence all the time.
From his judgment, however, medical specialists and other followers have He questioned his guiltsuggesting that the expert evidence presented by the prosecution to the jury was defective.
His lawyer Mark McDonald said the new medical findings of international experts “demolished” the case against him.
Lee, who was co -author of an academic document on air embolism in babies that was used during Letby's long trial, said at Tuesday's conference that “the evidence was wrong.”
“The evidence that was used to condemn it was wrong and for me that is a problem,” he said, adding that the panel came to the conclusion that the evidence “does not support the murder in any of these cases.”
Instead, he said, the Countess of the Neonatal of Chester was overloaded with work, attended by an “inadequate number of appropriately trained doctors” and had plumbing problems.
“If this had happened in a Hospital in Canada, it would close,” he said.
McDonald, who became Lotby's lawyer last year, said his original legal team could not produce any of his own medical experts during the trial, which means that “everything that had left was the evidence of experts in prosecution “
“This is a new evidence. This is a new evidence. It is convincing evidence due to the nature of the people who are giving that evidence, and the jury did not listen to it, ”he said.
The Lee panel included specialists from Great Britain, Canada, Germany, Japan, Sweden and the United States. On Tuesday, Lee said they planned to release their findings, regardless of whether they were favorable or unfavorable for Letby.
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