The best doctors question the conviction of “Killer Nurse” Lucy Letby in 7 deaths from children
On Tuesday, an international group of neonatal and pediatric specialists raised serious doubts about the tests used to condemn Lucy Letby, a British nurse who was judged guilty in 2023 for killing seven children at the hospital where she worked and trying to kill more seven.In a dramatic press conference in London, the president of the panel, dr. Shoo Lee, a Canadian neonatologist, said that a vast independent revision has not found evidence that Mrs. Letby killed or attempted to kill any of the children in her care.He also highlighted what the panel of 14 members determined were errors in the medical treatment in the unit in which the deaths occurred, at the countess of the Chester hospital, in the north-west of England, in 2015 and 2016 , and serious failures in the management of neonata...