Lucy Letby: Expert blasts armchair sleuths in killer nurse case as 'Poundshop Poirots'

Dr Dewi Evans, a babe decease adept whose grounds successful tribunal helped nail Lucy Letby, has been nether a changeless barrage of threats since the proceedings astatine Manchester Crown Court

A neonatal adept has slammed armchair sleuths successful the Lucy Letby lawsuit arsenic "Poundshop Poirots".

Dr Dewi Evans's grounds successful tribunal helped nail Lucy Letby, who was found blameworthy of murdering 7 precise young babies and trying to execution six others. However, since the trial, Dr Evans has received a changeless barrage of threats.

MPs, media commentators and aesculapian and technological professionals are turning connected him, too, the babe decease adept claims. However, helium said contiguous Letby's "convictions are perfectly solid."

And the medic blasted those down campaigns to effort and beryllium that Letby is innocent. Letby, 34, was fixed a whole-life word successful situation for the offences, carried retired astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital successful the spce of 1 year. The evil caregiver was earlier this twelvemonth recovered blameworthy of trying to termination different babe successful the neonatal portion wherever she worked.

So Dr Evans was "astonished" by the run successful her enactment pursuing the convictions. He said: "It seems to beryllium led by radical with the slightest magnitude of accusation astir the cases. People who had nary entree to the objective records and were not determination for the trial.

"I deliberation it reflects the daze of having to travel to presumption with the information that however connected world could a young caregiver deliberately harm babies successful her care? Lucy Letby had a just trial. The convictions are perfectly solid."

The doc spoke to The Sun arsenic Letby, calved successful Hereford, volition person her appeal against her convictions for attempted execution connected babies heard astatine the Appeal Court today.

An entreaty heard successful May was dismissed by 3 elder judges for deficiency of caller evidence. Her caller barrister Mark McDonald is present besides readying to instrumentality her lawsuit to the Criminal Cases Review Commission.

After her convictions, the Free Letby run was turbo-charged by a 13,000-word study successful the New Yorker magazine. Now her lawsuit has been taken up by campaigners specified arsenic MP Sir David Davis.

The Thirlwell nationalist enquiry into Letby's crimes has heard disturbing grounds of the caregiver perchance tampering with babies' breathing tubes portion connected 2 enactment placements astatine Liverpool Women's Hospital successful 2012 and 2015.

Richard Baker KC, representing the families of 12 babies, said that during her clip astatine Liverpool Women's Hospital babies had collapsed owed to dislodgement of endotracheal [breathing] tubes during astir 40 per cent of her shifts - contempt it happening connected mean successful little than 1 per cent of nursing shifts.