Nope. All bar one of the expert witnesses have reconsidered.
2 independent panels of leading neonatal doctors have reported against the conviction.
The causes of death have been discredited (air pumped in, insulin injections) and the only 'evidence' was questionable time sheets and door access readings which were meaningless.
The unit was a brickshow and the mortality rate was exceptionally high but that was more likely to be the poor hygiene, the falling apart infrastructure and the chronically overworked, understaffed nursing and support team.
David Davis is a voice being heard on it but it doesn't sound like a conspiracy from what I have followed
I'm sorry but a lot of that isn't true. The Letby case has unfortunately been hijacked by a huge amount of noise and I'm afraid you've been bamboozled by some of it as have many:
- Not a single expert witness has reconsidered. In fact, only a single "expert witness" gave evidence at trial, Dr. Dewi Evans.
- Medical evidence of foul play was also produced by the prosecution from all senior consultants that worked on the unit with Letby, all of whom are essentially "expert witnesses", being consultant neonatologists or paediatricians, all of whom suspected foul play in the deaths that occurred and all of whom suspected Letby to be behind it (and began a long-running campaign to attempt to convince senior hospital management to remove Letby from duty and begin an investigation). None of the prosecution witnesses in respect of the medical evidence have reconsidered their opinions.
- The mortality rate was only severely high while Letby was on duty. It was normal before she started work there. When the consultants successfully petitioned to have her moved from night shifts to day shifts, the unusually high pattern of deaths moved from night to day. When Letby was removed from duty, the significantly high mortality rate dropped back to normal. Police are currently investigating the spike in deaths that occurred at the Liverpool hospital where Letby was briefly moved to. These investigations are ongoing.
- Many of those that attempt to dispute the Letby convictions tend to play the game of taking each piece of evidence and dismissing it in isolation as circumstantial or unconvincing. When the vast majority of convictions are built on weight of circumstantial evidence that on their own don't add up to much, but taken together build an overwhelming picture of guilt. In Letby's case:
- All senior doctors working with her thought she was harming babies. One of them walked in on her standing over a crashing baby doing nothing but watching it die.
- A leading paediatric/neonatal expert witness agreed with their views that foul play had caused the deaths.
- The death spikes started when she joined the unit. Moved from nights to days as her shift changed and stopped when she was removed from duties.
- Letby attempted to hide her presence at the deaths, with evidence presented that she had modified shift entries and police found over 200 shift registers at her home address that she'd stolen from the hospital.
- Letby wrote things in her diary alluding to guilt , including the "I'm evil" and "I did this" quotes.
- As is typical in serial killer cases, Letby collected "trophies" from her victims, with the police finding objects belonging to the dead babies at her home address along with copies of their medical records which she had again stolen from the hospital.
- Letby "stalked" the families of the victims, including visiting their social media profiles on the anniversary of the babies deaths and footprint analysis showed she took interest or was looking for signs of grief.
