Private Eye - The Lessons of the Lucy Letby Case part 1

 



















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Lucy Letby verdict: ‘There’s a chance this is a terrible miscarriage of justice’

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My Lucy Letby ‘drawer of doom’ was getting full, consultant admits

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  My Lucy Letby ‘drawer of doom’ was getting full, consultant admits Dr Stephen Brearey one of the first people to spot a link between the nurse and the deaths of babies in 2015 and 2016 1 Dr Stephen Brearey was a consultant at the Countess of Chester Hospital where Lucy Letby worked as a neonatal nurse Sarah Knapton Science Editor 19 November 2024 3:26pm GMT A doctor at  Lucy Letby ’s hospital has admitted his “drawer of doom” containing the death records of babies was getting full during her time there. Dr Stephen Brearey , a consultant at the Countess of Chester Hospital, was one of the first people to spot a link between Letby and the deaths of babies in 2015 and 2016. Giving evidence at the  Thirlwall Inquiry  – which is looking into how the attacks might have been prevented – Dr Brearey admitted he had a “drawer of doom” which was “getting full” under Letby’s watch. Earlier in the hearing, Karen Rees, the head of nursing at the Countess of Chester, said Dr Brea...
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Meeting of experts hears the rota pattern used to convict the nurse was a ‘scientific fake’ and other factors could explain the deaths

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  Letby shift data was scientifically worthless, statisticians warn Meeting of experts hears the rota pattern used to convict the nurse was a ‘scientific fake’ and other factors could explain the deaths Lucy Letby was convicted of the murders of seven newborns and the attempted murders of six other infants  Chester Standard/SWNS Sarah Knapton Science Editor 20 September 2024 6:24pm Shift pattern data used in the Lucy Letby trial was “scientifically worthless” a meeting of the Royal Statistical Society has heard. One of the most damning pieces of evidence presented to the jury at Letby’s trial was a chart indicating that the nurse was always on duty at the  Countess of Chester Hospital  when babies collapsed or died. The table, which covered a 13-month period between June 2015 and June 2016, showed that while the 38 other nurses were in attendance on just a handful of occasions when suspicious incidents occurred,  Letby was at the scene  of all of them. Howe...
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