A NEONATOLOGIST who was “troubled” by Lucy Letby’s case has claimed the jury weren’t told “the whole truth” during her trial.
An expert witness who was failed to be called by the evil baby killer’s defence team said he has battled “for some time” with the outcome.
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Letby, 34, became Britain’s most prolific child killer when she was convicted of murdering seven babies in a year-long reign of terror.
The evil nurse also tried to kill six others on the neo-natal ward of Countess of Chester Hospital.
Letby was then handed a second whole life tariff after being convicted of attempting to murder a baby girl following a gruelling retrial last month.
She appeared in the dock at Manchester Crown Court where she declared “I’m innocent” after the verdict.
The monster was already serving 14 life sentences for each of her previous offences – meaning she will die in prison.
Now, Neonatologist Dr Michael Hall has claimed he “did not consider that the jury had heard the whole truth”.
He told The Times: “I would have given different answers to those given by the prosecution’s medical expert witnesses, and different interpretations for some of the cases.
“That’s not to say that I know all the answers, or that I know that Lucy Letby is innocent.
“There were certainly some events which were difficult to explain.”
The expert disagreed with those giving evidence for the prosecution who testified some babies had been “completely stable” before their death.
He argued most of the evidence was “circumstantial” and the case was presented with “little forensic evidence”.
Letby became only the fourth woman ever to be handed whole life tariff after Rose West, Joanna Dennehy and Myra Hindley.
The evil ‘Angel of Death’ used insulin and air to inject newborns while working on the neo-natal ward.
It was ruled collapses and deaths of the children were not “naturally-occurring tragedies” and instead the gruesome work of “poisoner” Letby.
Her rampage was finally uncovered after staff grew suspicious of the “significant rise” in the number of babies dying or suffering “catastrophic” collapses.
Letby was found to be the “common denominator” among the horrifying incidents.
Officers then searched her three-bedroom home in Chester and discovered a chilling cache of evidence.
The charges Letby has been convicted of in full
Child A, allegation of murder. The Crown said Letby injected air intravenously into the bloodstream of the baby boy. COUNT 1 GUILTY.
Child B, allegation of attempted murder. The Crown said Letby attempted to murder the baby girl, the twin sister of Child A, by injecting air into her bloodstream. COUNT 2 GUILTY.
Child C, allegation of murder. Prosecutors said Letby forced air down a feeding tube and into the stomach of the baby boy. COUNT 3 GUILTY.
Child D, allegation of murder. The Crown said air was injected intravenously into the baby girl. COUNT 4 GUILTY.
Child E, allegation of murder. The Crown said Letby murdered the twin baby boy with an injection of air into the bloodstream and also deliberately caused bleeding to the infant. COUNT 5 GUILTY.
Child F, allegation of attempted murder. Letby was said by prosecutors to have poisoned the twin brother of Child E with insulin. COUNT 6 GUILTY.
Child G, three allegations of attempted murder. The Crown said Letby targeted the baby girl by overfeeding her with milk and pushing air down her feeding tube. COUNT 7 GUILTY, COUNT 8 GUILTY, COUNT 9 NOT GUILTY.
Child H, two allegations of attempted murder. Prosecutors said Letby sabotaged the care of the baby girl in some way which led to two profound oxygen desaturations. COUNT 10 NOT GUILTY, COUNT 11 JURY COULD NOT REACH VERDICT.
Child I, allegation of murder. The prosecution said Letby killed the baby girl at the fourth attempt and had given her air and overfed her with milk. COUNT 12 GUILTY.
Child J, allegation of attempted murder. No specific form of harm was identified by the prosecution but they said Letby did something to cause the collapse of the baby girl. COUNT 13 JURY COULD NOT REACH VERDICT.
Child K, allegation of attempted murder. The prosecution said Letby compromised the baby girl as she deliberately dislodged a breathing tube. COUNT 14 JURY COULD NOT REACH VERDICT AT ORIGINAL TRIAL, NOW GUILTY AFTER RETRIAL
Child L, allegation of attempted murder. The Crown said the nurse poisoned the twin baby boy with insulin. COUNT 15 GUILTY.
Child M, allegation of attempted murder. Prosecutors said Letby injected air into the bloodstream of Child L’s twin brother. COUNT 16 GUILTY.
Child N, three allegations of attempted murder. The Crown said Letby inflicted trauma in the baby boy’s throat and also injected him with air in the bloodstream. COUNT 17 GUILTY, COUNT 18 JURY COULD NOT REACH VERDICT, COUNT 19 JURY COULD NOT REACH VERDICT.
Child O, allegation of murder. Prosecutors say Letby attacked the triplet boy by injecting him with air, overfeeding him with milk and inflicting trauma to his liver with “severe force”. COUNT 20 GUILTY.
Child P, allegation of murder. Prosecutors said the nurse targeted the triplet brother of Child O by overfeeding him with milk, injecting air and dislodging his breathing tube. COUNT 21 GUILTY.
Child Q, allegation of attempted murder. The Crown said Letby injected the baby boy with liquid, and possibly air, down his feeding tube. COUNT 22 JURY COULD NOT REACH VERDICT.
The nurse had scribbled haunting notes in diaries and on Post-It notes, including one that read: “I am evil I did this.”
The note added: “I don’t deserve to live. I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough to care for them.
“I am a horrible person.”
However, despite rotting in HMP Bronzefield serving 15 whole-life sentences, deluded internet sleuths have formed vile conspiracy theories protesting her innocence.
Although seven consultants who worked alongside Letby — with more than 100 years experience between them — are convinced she was deliberately harming newborns, there are some experts who question the evidence on which Letby was convicted.
Professor Richard Gill, from Leiden University in the Netherlands, previously argued Letby is innocent.
The Surrey-born academic has provided evidence that saw two other nurses convicted of murdering their patients freed from prison.
The Cambridge-educated statistician, 72, told The Sun: “I’d bet you a million to one she’s innocent.
“If she reads this article, my message to Lucy is, ‘It may take us a while but we’re going to get you out’.”
Meanwhile, Dr Svilena Dimitrova, an NHS consultant neonatologist (a doctor who specialises in the care of newborn babies) said: “The theories proposed in court were not plausible and the prosecution was full of medical inaccuracies.
“I wasn’t there, so I can’t say Letby was innocent, but I can see no proof of guilt.”
But two juries have now sifted through a mountain of evidence and have found Letby guilty.
Her attempts to appeal have been declined twice.
And, it may not be the end for the evil baby killer as Operation Hummingbird is still investigating the full four years of her nursing career.
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