LONDON — A public enquiry examining how British nurse Lucy Letby was able to murder babies in her care should be suspended because new evidence casts real doubt on her convictions, the lawyer for the hospital's senior managers said on Tuesday (March 18).
Members of the media work near a large screen showing a picture of convicted hospital nurse Lucy Letby, ahead of her sentencing, outside the Manchester Crown Court, in Manchester, UK, Aug 21, 2023.LONDON — A public enquiry examining how British nurse Lucy Letby was able to murder babies in her care should be suspended because new evidence casts real doubt on her convictions, the lawyer for the hospital's senior managers said on Tuesday .
Letby has failed with a number of appeals, but medical experts have since publicly challenged the evidence on which she was convicted, casting doubt on whether the babies were murdered. "There now appears to be a real likelihood that there are alternative explanations for these deaths and unexplained collapses, namely poor clinical management and care and natural causes," Kate Blackwell, lawyer for the senior managers at the COCH, said in written submissions to the enquiry, set up to determine how the killings went undetected.
Amidst the doubts voiced about Letby's guilt, police are still investigating whether she murdered other babies, and have expanded their enquiry into possible corporate manslaughter at the COCH, which is focused on the hospital's senior leadership, to also consider gross negligence manslaughter by individuals.
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