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Letby – more information coming to light

It would be interesting to go over the Bamber and Letby case in the light of new investigation techniques.
Bamber would be a cold case, but I gather all his Rights of Appeal have been exhausted.
Letby is more that experts have different views, which happens all the time. Why these new experts never made it to the first trial is slightly perplexing. And it takes a particular kind of expert to state absolutely there can be no dispute in the evidence and that someone is 100% guilty of murder.
Because , as a scientist/professional, you always know there's room for doubt. It's just whether that doubt is reasonable , or can be dismissed.
Reason they never made it to the first case is that the legal team, for some reason known to the, chose not to call them. That is their decision but given the nature of the technical evidence against her I would have demanded that be tested.
 
There was an excellent TV dramatisation of the murders and the enquiry- I remember some of the investigating officers were made to look pretty poor.
Then again it was a long time ago and the forensic tools available now are in a different league.
Wasn’t it starring Stephan Graham and Mark Addy as coppers?
 
I have to say, with this turn of events (link below), it wouldn't surprise me if Letby's team went straight for the 'unsafe conviction' route to get her released.
This on the face of it, is quite shocking, that it's even considered possible that institutional failures were covered by bullying a staff member into a position of potential guilt.
But the similarities with the Post Office scandal are there to see.

Lucy Letby: Manslaughter probe at Countess of Chester Hospital widened

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A police investigation at the hospital where nurse Lucy Letby murdered seven babies and attempted to kill seven others has been expanded to consider whether there was evidence of gross negligence manslaughter.
Cheshire Police said it opened a corporate manslaughter investigation at the Countess of Chester Hospital in October 2023.
Det Supt Paul Hughes said: "As our enquiries have continued, the scope of the investigation has now widened to also include gross negligence manslaughter."
An undisclosed number of suspects have been notified by the force, he added, before stressing that "no arrests or charges have yet been made".
The senior investigating officer said: "This is a separate offence to corporate manslaughter and focuses on the grossly negligent action or inaction of individuals.

"It is important to note that this does not impact on the convictions of Lucy Letby for multiple offences of murder and attempted murder." " , (BBC Website 14.3.25)
 

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