Canadian doctors are a leading group of international medical experts who believe that the British most prolific child killer is in modern times perhaps misjudged.
Lucy Letby, a former newborn sister, was found guilty of two trials, 2023 and 2024, for the murder of seven early infants and attempts to kill seven others. All death happened between 2015 and 2016 at the Countess Chester Hospital in northwestern England, where she worked.
The prosecution claimed that Letby had deliberately injecting vulnerable newborns – some only a few days – by air, poisoned them with insulin or exceeded them with milk.
Letby, then in his early 30, were sentenced to 15 living conditions, which means he will never be conditional. Appeals against her belief have been rejected.
The titles of British newspapers described her as “The worst British serial killer” and “cold, calculating the killer”. The case was closed.
But Dr. Shoo Lee, a retired head of neonatology departments at the University of Toronto, believes Letby may have been misjudged, and he presented this discovery at a press conference in London on Tuesday.
Lee, who is the president of the Canadian Neonatal Foundation, has compiled a council that will examine medical evidence presented in this case, after a broader doubt regarding the prosecution.
“As a panel, we concluded that there was no murder,” he told CBC News in an interview shortly after a press conference.
‘I usually don’t do medical cases’
Lee first approached Letby’s defense team in October 2023, while on his family agriculture near Edmonton.
“I got this E -one from some lawyers in the UK, asking if I would look at the case,” Lee said. “I was busy harvesting, so I just ignored him.”
The Prosecutor’s Office in the case of Letby claimed that the nurse had injected the air into the baby’s veins and leaned strongly on medical evidence after the hospital staff reported a change in skin color to some of the babies who died.
They claimed their case using a 1989 research work on the air embolism that Lee had a co -author.
“I usually don’t do medical legal cases,” he said. “I don’t enjoy them, so I don’t do them.”
But in this particular case, “Because they used my work to condemn it, I was curious what they said and what they did.”
What he found, Lee says, was wrong. “What they said and interpreted to condemn her is not what I said in work.”
The prosecution emphasized various changes in the skin color found in dead babies. Lee said at a press conference that he had recently updated his work and did not find any cases of skin color change associated with the air embolism of the venous system, adding: “So let’s make that theory.”
He tried to submit his evidence at the LETBY Appeal Court hearing in April 2024, but that was disabled.
“The judge said the defense had the opportunity to call me during the original trial, and they were not,” he explained.
Why didn’t he only call him Letby’s legal team.
Panel came to a unanimous conclusion
Lee composed a team of 14 people-not-called “International Professional Panel of the Best People in the World in Neonatology”-how to review the evidence.
The panel consisted of six Canadians, while the rest were from the USA, the UK, Japan, Germany and Sweden.
Working for free, Lee said they wanted to “give an opinion on whether or not evidence used for conviction or not [Letby] was correct. And what were the causes of death or injury. “
Their conclusion was unanimous.
“These babies died either of natural causes or poor medical care. That happened,” Lee told CBC News.
Sitting with a British MP, Letby’s lawyer and former British Royal College of Pediatrics at the London press conference, Lee went through the findings. (None of the grandmothers twisted can be identified under British law.)
For example: Baby 1, he said, she died of blood clot, not air. Baby 4 was sepsis and pneumonia, not murder. Baby 9 suffered from bad care and death prevented.
“If that happened at a hospital in Canada, we would close it,” Lee told CBC News.
Jurors also heard non -medical evidence
The Letby case encouraged a series of conspiracies and alternative theories, especially on social media.
But Lee is not worried about putting his name on the plates.
“I already have a good reputation,” he said. “Everyone knows my work, and I am convinced of my own work. On top of that, there are 14 experts – 13 others with me – who speak the same thing.”
The jurors on two tests of Letby received more than the medical evidence to be considered.
During the first 10-month trial, the prosecution attracted to the accounts of doctors and nurses. The jury also had access to tens of thousands of pages of medical notes, textual and social media with colleagues and cards with cards to move to the hospital.
The prosecution also presented handwritten notes found in Letby’s house. They included phrases like “I killed them” and “I am evil”, but also words like “despair”, “I hate my life” and “Why me?”
The notes were presented like a confession – something Letby never did. After conviction, Some criminology experts claimed that notes were meaningless and perhaps written as part of therapy.
Prosecutor’s critics do not maintain an obvious motive or psychological background that coincides with that serial killer. But the prosecution said that Letby was shift when it came to death, even when it moved from night to daily work.
Police are currently examining about 4,000 other babies admitted to hospitals where Letby worked as a newborn baby.
A public investigation is also underwayTesting death at Count Chester Hospital near Manchester, including listening to the experiences of bereaved families.
“What does she do in prison?”
Baby’s mother Letby is convicted of attempted murder said British Media“We had the truth. We believe in the British judicial system. We believe that the jury has made the right decision.”
But Dr. Lee is convinced of his panels.
“I know the Canadians have a sense of fair game, and the Canadians have a sense of right and wrong,” he said. “If there was no murder, there couldn’t be a killer. So what does she do in prison?”
He said “this case should be viewed and they should have re -transfer.”
Letby is just the remaining chance of avoiding life behind bars is now lying on an independent commission to revise criminal cases. This has the power to explore cases in which people believe that they are wrongly convicted or convicted and return him to court as a potential abortion of justice.
Letby’s lawyer invites the Commission to inspect the case, based on Lee’s findings.
The Commission confirmed this week that she had received a request from her lawyers, which would be estimated.
