Good morning. When Lucy Letby was convicted in 2023 of the murder of seven babies, she entered a bleak pantheon of the worst serial killers in British history. Since then, as concerns have been raised about the safety of her conviction, they have often been dismissed as the product of speculation and misinformation driven by people who did not fully understand the evidence against her.
But yesterday, a remarkable new report cast perhaps the most substantial doubt yet on whether Letby really committed the murders for which she is now serving a whole-life sentence. At a press conference organised by the Conservative MP David Davis and Letby’s barrister, Mark McDonald, the eminent Canadian neonatologist Dr Shoo Lee set out the work of a panel of experts who have examined the cases for which Letby was tried, and said: “In summary, ladies and gentlemen, we did not find any murders.”
