The Lynching of Lucy Letby

  PETER HITCHENS: The Lucy Letby case has begun to stink like a neglected fridge in a student house LISTEN:  The Trial of Lucy Letby, the No.1 True Crime podcast is available wherever you get your podcasts now. This series, we’re bringing you the most important updates from The Thirwall Inquiry, new episodes weekly By  PETER HITCHENS FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY Published:   11:55 EST, 30 November 2024  |  Updated:   11:57 EST, 30 November 2024 e-mail 7 View comments Why do government officials hold briefings for the media? In my experience (more than half a century of reporting) they do so in the hope of influencing the way certain issues are reported. Well, who can blame them? They want to stay in power and get their way. Access to the powerful makes reporters feel important, and they don’t want to lose it by upsetting their contacts. I think it would be better if the public knew this was going on. So I was shocked when I learned recently that the Cro...

  EXCLUSIVE Revealed: One of the consultants who helped jail Letby 'accidentally killed a baby' - yet this was kept from the jury. JOHN SWEENEY'S devastating expose of what really went on in 'broken' hospital LISTEN:  The Trial of Lucy Letby, the No.1 True Crime podcast is available wherever you get your podcasts now. This series, we’re bringing you the most important updates from The Thirwall Inquiry, new episodes weekly By  JOHN SWEENEY Published:   20:46 EST, 29 November 2024  |  Updated:   20:54 EST, 29 November 2024 e-mail View comments Among the witnesses who lined up to accuse  Lucy Letby  of killing babies in her care during her first trial last year, few were as influential as the group of consultants who had worked alongside the nurse in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Indeed, they were so formidable that they became known as the 'Gang of Four'. Thanks, in large part, to their testimony, Letby is now serv...

  Jump to content UK NEWS WEBSITE OF THE YEAR  2024 News Sport Business Money Opinion Ukraine US election Travel Health Lifestyle Culture Puzzles Podcasts My Feed See all News Lucy Letby hospital outlines 15 reasons why ‘baby killer’ was innocent Neonatal ward manager lists why nurse, who would eventually be convicted of murder, could not be behind the deaths of babies 1369 Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven more  Credit : PA/Cheshire Constabulary Sarah Knapton Science Editor 23 November 2024 3:38pm GMT A neonatal ward manager at  Lucy Letby ’s hospital outlined 15 reasons why the nurse could not be to blame for the deaths and collapse of babies, it has emerged. Documents released for the  Thirlwall Inquiry , which is examining how incidents at the  Countess of Chester  could have been prevented, show that Eirian Powell, Letby’s boss, was unconvinced by allegations against the nurse. She distributed a doc...