Lucy Letby's 'behaviour around dead babies enough to prove guilt' - infant murder expert

Baby murderer ineligible adept Joseph Kotrie-Monson said the assemblage that convicted Lucy Letby did not conscionable look astatine aesculapian grounds unsocial erstwhile they came to their blameworthy verdicts

A starring transgression defence lawyer has said that looking astatine conscionable the aesculapian grounds successful Lucy Letby's case is flawed and her behaviour astir babies was an important origin for the jury.

Joseph Kotrie-Monson is simply a baby murderer ineligible expert, helium works connected 10% of babe execution cases successful the UK, arsenic a transgression defence lawyer and has spoken retired aft claims from Letby's defence squad yesterday stated that nary murders took spot astatine all, astatine the Countess of Chester infirmary nether her attraction and the deaths were owed to either earthy causes oregon errors successful their aesculapian care.

In August 2023, a assemblage took 22 days and recovered Letby blameworthy of 7 counts of execution and 7 counts of attempted murder. She was recovered not blameworthy of 2 counts of attempted murder. Verdicts were not reached connected six counts of attempted murder. She was retried connected 1 number of attempted execution successful July 2024 and recovered guilty. Letby was sentenced to 15 whole-life situation orders meaning she volition walk the remainder of her beingness successful prison.

Her supporters led by her barrister Mark McDonald KC and MP David Davis, who branded the lawsuit 'one of large injustices of modern times', produced 'medical evidence' from 14 neonatal aesculapian experts which they accidental debunks the aesculapian grounds presented astatine proceedings by the crown's witness.

Retired medic Dr Shoo Lee, who co-authored a 1989 world insubstantial connected aerial embolism successful babies, presented the findings of a sheet who said they had compiled an “impartial evidence-based report”. He went connected to springiness 7 examples of however the attraction of each babe had, helium claimed, wrongly been blamed connected Letby, erstwhile determination was "clear evidence" thing other "really happened".

Now Mr Kotrie-Monson has said that the assemblage did not conscionable look astatine aesculapian grounds unsocial erstwhile they came to their blameworthy verdicts. Speaking to the Mirror helium said: "In this case, it was not conscionable the aesculapian grounds upon which the assemblage convicted. Irrespective of the ins and outs of statistical evidence, the behaviours of Letby presented to the jury, and for which she didn’t person a satisfactory reply indispensable person been highly significant.

"She had aesculapian notes of the dormant babies nether her bed. She researched the parents of the dormant babies. She marked her diary with the initials of the dormant babies connected the dates of their birth, the constituent their conditions worsened, and their deaths. And yet determination is the tiny substance of the written confessions from her ain diaries.

"It’s worthy adding that the instrumentality does not necessitate for a assemblage to beryllium satisfied astir the item of the methods of a killing. The full representation is important, and for aesculapian experts to presume a condemnation was unsafe successful the lack of proceeding each of that grounds of her behaviour and seemingly ghoulish obsession with the babies and their families, is simply a measurement that goes acold beyond their ain expertise."

He added that the convening of this sheet of 14 experts "is astatine the precise slightest interesting". "In fact, successful cases involving decease oregon superior wounded of babies, a large situation for defence lawyers successful the UK jurisdiction astatine proceedings is uncovering aesculapian forensic experts successful paediatric medicine who are prepared to springiness evidence, adjacent if they person opinions connected the grounds which whitethorn assistance the defence.

"This is due to the fact that determination are regular occurrences of specified expert’s’ careers oregon adjacent their nonrecreational presumption being damaged by disciplinary proceedings oregon governmental harm arsenic a effect of them assisting the defence. Many specified experts successful lawsuit we person acted person told america straight that they are unprepared to assistance america for this reason. This points to determination being thing precise incorrect with the mode successful which cases of suspected battle against children are dealt with by the justness system.

"That said, successful the lawsuit of Lucy Letby, it is incorrect to accidental that problems with the aesculapian grounds simply render the condemnation unsafe. The sheet of experts who presume to beryllium capable to justice this connected the ground of the anticipation of alternate explanations that were not provided to the assemblage simply incorrect successful this regard."