Expert campaigning to free Lucy Letby is linked to flawed review into killer's baby unit

Professor Neena Modi, who was among the experts who claimed determination were alternate explanations for each of Lucy Letby's convictions, is linked to a flawed reappraisal into the Countess of Chester Hospital neonatal unit

One of the experts campaigning to escaped Lucy Letby was the caput of a nonrecreational assemblage which conducted a flawed reappraisal of the neonatal portion wherever she murdered babies.

On Tuesday a panel of planetary aesculapian experts claimed determination were alternate explanations for each of Letby's convictions for execution oregon attempted murder. Chairman Dr Shoo Lee told the property conference: "In each cases decease oregon wounded were owed to earthy causes oregon conscionable atrocious aesculapian care."

It is thought the findings volition signifier portion of an exertion to person her lawsuit investigated arsenic a imaginable miscarriage of justice. Also contiguous connected Tuesday was Professor Neena Modi, who it has since emerged was president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) from 2015 to 2018.

During that time, bosses astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital asked the RCPCH for assistance pursuing the deaths of respective babies. The organisation carried retired a reappraisal successful September 2016. The nationalist enquiry into Letby’s crimes heard that the RCPCH shouldn't person conducted the reappraisal aft learning astir the suspicions of doctors. The RCPCH besides accepted that the reappraisal "contributed to uncertainty and deficiency of clarity that bedevilled the response" to the spike successful babe deaths.

The Mirror has contacted Professor Modi for comment. The RCPCH has said it doesn't clasp a presumption implicit Letby’s convictions.

Letby is serving 15 full beingness sentences for murdering 7 babies and attempting to execution 7 others astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital betwixt 2015 and 2016. She has already had 2 bids to entreaty against her convictions rejected.

The parent of 1 babe who Letby attempted to execution described Tuesday's property league arsenic a "publicity stunt". She told MailOnline: "Every facet of what they are doing is truthful disrespectful, it is precise upsetting. They said the parents privation to cognize the truth, but we’ve had the truth.

"We judge successful the British justness system, we judge the assemblage made the close decision. We already person the information and this sheet of alleged experts don’t talk for us."