Prosecutors consider further charges against Letby
Prosecutors are considering bringing further charges against Lucy Letby following the deaths and non-fatal collapses of babies at hospitals where she worked.
"As always, we will make that decision independently, based on the evidence and in line with our legal test."
Yet, they ignore:
Earlier this year her legal team, led by barrister Mark McDonald,
submitted an application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which has the power to refer cases back to the Court of Appeal for a full hearing.
The application contained a report from a panel of 14 international experts in neonatology and paediatric care.
After reviewing evidence heard at Letby's trial,
panel members concluded that they believed no babies had been deliberately harmed.
Last month former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Letby's case
should be "urgently re-examined" due to what he called "serious and credible" questions raised by the expert panel.
Letby, originally from Hereford, has always maintained her innocence.
She has lost two separate bids to challenge her convictions at the Court of Appeal.
In an unrelated development, Cheshire Police on Tuesday announced that three former senior managers at the Countess of Chester Hospital
had been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.
Unrelated? It's just coincidence that new charges are looking at being applied to a woman who 14 international experts and 2 high-up government officials say is innocent.
The hospital Letby worked at was Countess of Chester Hospital.
From the Wiki
From 2015 to 2016 the trust cancelled urgent operations 37 times – the highest number of any NHS trust in England.
The same time that Letby was allegedly(?) murdering kids.
On 15 June 2022, the BBC published an article stating that the Care Quality Commission inspection found that the maternity unit was unsafe with problems in adequately trained staff and suitable equipment they also found that in 2021 there five patients had major haemorrhages after giving birth at the hospital, resulting in a need for unplanned
hysterectomies.<a
The problems still haven't been fixed.
Former head of nursing says she believes Letby is innocent
A former top nurse at the trust where Lucy Letby carried out her crimes has said she believes the former neonatal nurse is innocent.
Ms Rees, in October 2024,
told the Thirlwall Inquiry that she initially felt that consultants who raised the alarm about Letby were doing so because of a “personal issue”.
“The one person that knows her nursing team is the manager or the unit manager — not a consultant that visits a couple of times a week,” Ms Rees said.
Ms Rees made a public statement in August 2023, when she said Letby was “convincing”, “calculated” and that she had deceived her.
Asked about this statement by the Sunday Times, Ms Rees said she made it on the advice of her lawyers, and that she regretted doing so.
Is this nurse clout chasing? Possibly. But why did lawyers tell her to say Letby was guilty?
Since Letby, The CoCH has been through several CEO's, including one who was bullied out of her position and is currently suing them for a lot of money.
Here is the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health report from 2016 - Letby says this report proves her innocence. In the report, which was commissioned due to high child mortality rates, it states that two of the clusters of unexplained deaths were under-reported. That 10 of the 13 deaths weren't input into the DATIX incident reporting software that the NHS use to log near misses and deaths, because the trust said they were "expected deaths". The report admits that it never received a definition for what "expected deaths" were and assumed the definition.
There's a rabbit hole here that extends beyond Letby. The current board that runs CoCH is made up of members from Liverpool Heart and Chest. The consultants names hired to investigate the deaths in 2016, and the consultants names who accused Letby of killing kids, hasn't been disclosed. If it has, I can't find it, and I would be interested in seeing if they're the same name or team.
Here's some observations
Jeremy Hunt was Health secretary during these deaths - he was hated for his cuts to the NHS and refusal to give pay rises, while lambasting Donald Trump for having privatised healthcare and not an NHS style system. Why would a career snake like Hunt, who is responsible for those deaths, say Letby is innocent, at the risk of taking on responsibility for those deaths? Wouldn't it be beneficial to keep quiet or lay the blame on Letby?
Capita owned 3 of the major agencies recruiting for under-staffed wards, of which, CoCH was one of them. According to the report, the top echelons were not understaffed, and paid £125k+ a year, yet the lower ranks were.
Those who worked with Letby say she didn't have the emotional capacity to harm, as she was too soft when anyone was hurt. With one ex manager told to purger herself as advised by her lawyer.
Neonatal deaths were classed as "expected deaths" to keep the number of deaths low, until they got too large and external consultants were brought in to investigate what was going on.
Here's what I think happened:
The top managers were fully staffed and purposely kept the Tier 1 and Tier 2 positions understaffed. They then called in Capita, who charged 49% higher for the costs of agency workers than hiring other nurses. Some of that extra profit was bunged the way of the managers. Unfortunately, the agency workers, who are predominantly brownoid, started killing kids due to lack of hygiene, ability or because they don't care.
Rather than losing the contract for the entire NHS, causing a political shit storm of immigrants killing kids, every one kept quiet, hiding deaths and fudging numbers until it became too obvious. At that point, a scapegoat was required; Letby. Consultants were paid to come in and blame the nurse who would be easy to blame - without making them brownoid, and possibly to cover-up for their report in 2016 that wasn't acted upon.
CEOs were shuffled out and as one grew a conscience - or found out by mistake, what had happened, she went to blow the whistle, only to be fired, dragged over the coals and financially ruined.
I would post this in the Letby thread, but I can't be arsed with 100 posts of "hur dur, en aych ess bad" by some fat, retarded yank.
