Lucy Letby

[Vince Green]

Dewy Evans was a retired Paediatrician but he wasn't a Forensic Pathologist. So basically not an expert at all

He also never examined any of the dead babies but only formed his conclusions from reading the case notes.

Stranger still, the police never contacted him, he contacted the police and 'offered his services '

It's a bit bizarre that the police and the CPS used him in such a high profile case as the key witness for the prosecution. I can only suspect it was because he was prepared to say what they wanted to hear. If that is true a proper investigation of the handling of the case needs to be set in motion.

[Gordon R]

Letby's barrister also

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dismissed "lesser circumstantial" non-medical evidence presented at Letby's trial such as her handwritten note which stated: "I am evil, I did this", her hoarding of mementos of her crimes, and her Facebook searches of parents of her victims.

Mr McDonald said there was a "valid explanation" for each of them

 

The jury didn't seem to accept her valid explanation. 

If the current experts are correct, her defence team at previous trials would seem to have been less than stellar. No defence medical witness called. They accepted the prosecution witness testimony

[GHE]

22 minutes ago, Vince Green said:

Dewy Evans was a retired Paediatrician but he wasn't a Forensic Pathologist. So basically not an expert at all

He also never examined any of the dead babies but only formed his conclusions from reading the case notes.

Stranger still, the police never contacted him, he contacted the police and 'offered his services '

It's a bit bizarre that the police and the CPS used him in such a high profile case as the key witness for the prosecution. I can only suspect it was because he was prepared to say what they wanted to hear. If that is true a proper investigation of the handling of the case needs to be set in motion.

This. Private Eye has been highlighting all the inconsistencies from the beginning, they aren't saying that she is innocent but they are saying there there are very strong reasons for doubting her guilt, and they have a point.

Her original legal team, now sacked, doesn't seem to have done a great job. This is pretty normal in very serious cases, the CPS has unlimited resources and the Defence has far less.

The Defence simply couldn't (or didn't) find any expert witnesses, again this is normal, all of the "experts" are available to the establishment, but are scared of opposing them. The experts now putting her case are all "international", i.e. their careers can't be harmed by speaking the truth and going against the CPS and the NHS.

Innocent or guilty, Letby had upset the NHS system in the past by whistleblowing.  You'd think that they would want to encourage people to speak out, but countless cases of horrific actions against whistleblowers indicate otherwise.

Letby also (allegedly) had a very busy "social" life, and there's a story going round (which may or may not be true) that rejection of a very senior boss man resulted in her problems.

Her legal team have the odds stacked against them, it isn't just the NHS and the CPS, it's the fact that the whole judicial system is always very reluctant to admit to being wrong.

 

[McSpredder]

18 hours ago, zipdog said:

Our legal system was founded on the principle that it is better for 100 guilty people to go free than for one innocent person to be wrongly convicted. That principle seems to have been forgotten in recent years.

... in recent years?   Way back in 1988 Lord Denning (one of the most senior members of the English judicial system) said "It is better that some innocent men remain in jail than that the integrity of the English judicial system be impugned".    

[12gauge82]

35 minutes ago, McSpredder said:

... in recent years?   Way back in 1988 Lord Denning (one of the most senior members of the English judicial system) said "It is better that some innocent men remain in jail than that the integrity of the English judicial system be impugned".    

And it is that attitude that the system is more important than an individual that leads to cases like the grooming gang and post office scandals, which ironically does far more harm to the system than if genuine miscarriages of justice were corrected at the earliest opportunity. 

I wonder if Lord denning would hold the same views if he were banged up for nothing, what a disgraceful individual. 

[Rewulf]

2 minutes ago, 12gauge82 said:

I wonder if Lord denning would hold the same views if he were banged up for nothing, what a disgraceful individual

Not very often does a high profile individual,  a member of government,  or indeed the very wealthy, see the inside of a courtroom , never mind a prison cell.

Despite some of them richly deserving  so.

[12gauge82]

As for Lucy Letby, if someone had asked me a few years ago in a case like hers whether I thought there was a chance she might be innocent, I'd have said not a chance. Since the latest scandales however, while still of the belief she probably did it, I'm not so sure. Like everything else in this country, the legal system is clearly broken. 

3 minutes ago, Rewulf said:

Not very often does a high profile individual,  a member of government,  or indeed the very wealthy, see the inside of a courtroom , never mind a prison cell.

Despite some of them richly deserving  so.

I was going to go into that and your quite right, a two tier system for the rich and powerful and everyone else is very clearly still alive and well.