02 August 2024
The Lucy Letby case, the former neonatal nurse convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill a further six, was shocking. But was Letby guilty? Some people think not.
In this week’s NLJ, Jon Robins, NLJ columnist and lecturer at Brighton University, sifts through the evidence and speaks to some experts about evidence in the Letby case.
Those in the ‘innocent’ camp point to some horrendous miscarriages of justice in the past, for example, those convicted on the basis of evidence given by the now discredited paediatrics expert Sir Roy Meadows.
Robins writes: ‘Lucy Letby was portrayed by the prosecution as evil incarnate in last year’s trial.’ Was her subsequent conviction sound or a horrifying miscarriage of justice?
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