The senior Tory MP Sir David Davis is calling for a retrial of the Lucy Letby case citing fundemental flaws in the criminal trial which took place at Manchester Crown Court
The MP David Davis speaking in the Commons described the trial as a “clear miscarriage of justice” during the debate on the Role of Expert Witnesses and the Trial of Lucy Letby.
Davis says that the past president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) reached out to him with concerns over the safety of Lucy Letby’s convictions and added that in his opinion at least two of her alleged victims may have died as a result of “suboptimal care” by doctors who accused her
Davis said he believes a retrial will “clear” her, as her conviction was “built on a poor understanding of probabilities” and lacked “hard evidence”.
He accepted that the case had “horrified the nation” and that it “seemed clear a nurse had turned into a serial killer”.
“Now I initially accepted the tabloid characterisation of Letby as an evil monster, but then I was approached by many experts, leading statisticians, neonatal specialists, forensic scientists, legal experts and those who had served at Chester Hospital who were afraid to come forward,”
Letby was convicted at Manchester Crown Court of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others, with two attempts on one of her victims, between June 2015 and June 2016, killing her victims by injecting the infants with insulin or air or force-feeding them with milk.
