My work was used to convict Letby – I KNOW she’s innocent… and I’m coming out of retirement to prove it, doc says

A TOP doc whose enactment was utilized to convict slayer caregiver Lucy Letby has revealed wherefore helium "knows" she's innocent.

Letby is serving 15 whole-life sentences for the murders of 7 babies and the attempted murders of 7 others successful her attraction astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital.

During her trial, an world insubstantial by Dr Shoo Lee, 1 of Canada's apical neonatologists, was utilized to enactment the mentation that she killed immoderate of the infants by injecting them with air.

But according to the doctor, his insubstantial was "misrepresented".

Despite enjoying a peaceful status connected his workplace successful Canada, helium decided to attest for Letby astatine her entreaty successful October 2023 - which subsequently failed.

In an exclusive interrogation with The Sun - aft launching a renewed bid to situation her condemnation - Dr Lee has present revealed wherefore helium came retired of status to effort to wide Letby's name.

He said: "Sometimes successful beingness we request radical to basal up for america and if we don't bash that past we're a spot abbreviated connected humanity."

According to the neonatologist, the slayer nurse's life-sentence is based connected "wrong evidence".

He continued: "I tin accidental she is innocent. Our decision was that determination was nary murder.

"If there's nary murderer, past I don't cognize what she's doing successful prison."

But contempt the enactment of Dr Lee and others similar him, determination are inactive galore who judge and enactment the court's blameworthy verdicts.

Letby's proceedings justice said she showed “deep malevolence bordering connected sadism” aft she was convicted of preying connected babies tiny capable to acceptable successful the thenar of her hand.

Seven consultants who had worked alongside Letby — with much than 100 years acquisition betwixt them — are besides convinced she was deliberately harming newborns.

And the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) this week urged radical to “remember the families” of the victims amid the tempest of “speculation…from parties with lone a partial presumption of the evidence”.

But Dr Lee is insistent, adding: "If the prosecution had decently interpreted my paper, she wouldn't person been convicted successful the archetypal place."

Letby's failed entreaty near him utterly "disturbed" knowing this meant she would walk the remainder of her beingness down bars, helium said.

Dr Lee added: "It didn't look close due to the fact that idiosyncratic has conscionable been convicted utilizing incorrect evidence."

He added: "Perhaps the clever happening to bash would beryllium to bash thing and say, that's nary of my business.

"It's not adjacent my state for heaven's sake. But it conscionable didn't consciousness right.

"I thought if the grounds being utilized was incorrect past this would beryllium a existent miscarriage of justice."

Following 2 of the nurse's failed efforts to overturn her convictions, helium assembled 14 experts from astir the satellite to analyse the aesculapian grounds against her.

A 'real miscarriage of justice'

Their report, which was revealed astatine a property league connected Tuesday, and volition present beryllium considered by the CRCC, said determination were "no murders".

For their part, families of Letby's victims reacted with fury, with the mum of 1 babe lad who she tried to execution blasting Dr Lee's involution arsenic a "publicity stunt".

But, talking aft the event, Dr Lee told The Sun that unit shortages and deficiency of aesculapian cognition played a cardinal relation successful the babies' deaths.

"If the aesculapian attraction had been better, possibly immoderate of the babies whitethorn person survived," helium said.

As for Letby, helium claims she had nary engagement successful the infants' deaths astatine all.

Instead, helium believes the blasted is much apt to onshore connected elder members of NHS unit if a caller investigation is launched.

He said: "As acold arsenic Lucy is concerned, I don't cognize of thing I could spot successful the aesculapian records that would suggest she was portion of the mediocre attraction that was provided.

"I fishy that immoderate of the doctors volition beryllium astatine the receiving extremity of immoderate of these [lawsuits].

"I didn't spot thing that would suggest that Lucy would beryllium progressive with that."

According to the paediatrician, the information that Letby was contiguous astatine the decease of each kid is not grounds of her murdering antics.

After reviewing her files, helium said it was much apt due to the fact that Letby had a "specific skillset" that meant she was often caring for the "sickest babies".

He added that Letby often picked up other shifts erstwhile the infirmary was understaffed.

He said this could relationship for wherefore she was ever astir babies who died oregon were precise sick.

During the property conference, Dr Lee said if the Countess of Chester Hospital had been successful Canada, wherever he's from, it would person been unopen down.

Healthcare failures

In summation to idiosyncratic faults, helium believes failures successful the healthcare strategy are mostly to blame.

The doc said this was highlighted erstwhile 1 babe who was calved prematurely and who weighed conscionable 800g was delivered and cared for astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital's tier 2 neonatal unit.

"It should person been successful a level 3 infirmary but it was cared for determination due to the fact that determination was nary furniture for the parent successful the level 3 hospital," helium said.

Neonatal attraction - the attraction of caller calved babies - is divided into 4 categories successful the NHS depending connected the severity of the child's condition.

He added: "The question is, however overmuch of it is the doctor's responsibility due to the fact that they were negligent?

"Or however overmuch of it is due to the fact that they were being asked to bash thing they shouldn't person been doing?

"Or that they were not trained to do? That's thing the strategy has to look at, the infirmary has to look at.

"It is rather unreasonable possibly to inquire doctors to look aft babies for which they were ne'er trained oregon person the expertise.

"Then they marque mistakes and they don't adjacent cognize they're making mistakes."

His comments travel aft Tuesday's property league wherever helium said: "We did not find immoderate murders.

"There was nary aesculapian grounds to enactment malfeasance causing decease oregon wounded successful immoderate of the 17 cases successful the trial.

"Death oregon wounded of each the affected infants were owed either to earthy causes oregon to errors successful aesculapian care.

"There were superior problems related to aesculapian attraction of patients astatine this hospital."

Child died from respiratory complications

The retired doc told the proceeding that 1 of the babies really died from thrombosis and not aerial embolism.

Thrombosis is simply a information wherever a humor clot forms successful a humor vas - blocking humor flow.

Dr Lee besides told the proceeding that different babe was said to person collapsed erstwhile aerial was injected into them.

Prosecutors said the aerial embolism resulted successful "patchy discolouration of the tegument and death".

The medic said today: "I would similar to conscionable repetition what I said earlier, that determination is nary grounds that aerial embolism done the veins results successful patchy discolouration of the skin.

"So let's conscionable disregard that, that's not a consideration."

The sheet besides heard 1 babe girl's decease was preventable and that determination was nary grounds of an aerial embolism.

Dr Lee suggested medics caring for her failed to respond successful a timely mode to a bacterial corruption with antibiotics.

He besides concluded the kid died from respiratory complications.

Jurors heard Letby utilized insulin and aerial to inject newborns portion moving connected the neo-natal ward and dislodged their breathing tubes.

There was 'no proof'

But Dr Lee said successful the lawsuit of 1 baby, determination was "no proof" their conduit was dislodged.

Instead, the youngster's deterioration was caused by the usage of an undersized tube, helium added.

Letby's barrister Mark McDonald described today's grounds arsenic a "game-changer" and vowed to bring the lawsuit backmost to the Court of Appeal "by the summer".

The neo-natal caregiver has truthful acold mislaid 2 bids to entreaty against her convictions astatine the court.

Her latest successful October was implicit her astir caller condemnation for the attempted execution of a babe girl.

The killer declared "I'm innocent" as she was handed different beingness bid successful July aft the retrial.

Jurors heard however she tried to termination Baby K by dislodging her breathing conduit little than 2 hours aft she was born.

Baby K was transported to Arrowe Park Hospital and sadly died 3 days aboriginal - though prosecutors bash not judge the caregiver caused her death.

Guilty of murdering 7 babies

Letby became lone the 4th pistillate ever to beryllium handed a full beingness tariff after Rose West, Joanna Dennehy and Myra Hindley when she was sentenced.

She was primitively convicted of 7 counts of execution successful August past twelvemonth pursuing a nine-month proceedings and 22 days of assemblage deliberation.

During her trial, prosecutors argued the collapses and deaths of the children were not "naturally-occurring tragedies" and alternatively the gruesome work of "poisoner" Letby.

Her rampage was yet uncovered aft unit grew suspicious of the "significant rise" successful the fig of babies dying or suffering "catastrophic" collapses.

Letby was recovered to beryllium the "common denominator" among the horrifying incidents.

A nationalist enquiry into however Letby was capable to perpetrate her crimes began successful September, with closing ineligible submissions expected successful March.

The findings of Lady Justice Thirlwall are expected to beryllium published this autumn.

A probe into whether Letby harmed immoderate different babies astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital and Liverpool Women's Hospital is ongoing.

Letby has been interviewed astatine HMP Bronzefield successful Ashford, Surrey, nether caution successful narration to the ongoing investigation.

A spokesperson for the CCRC said: "We are alert that determination has been a large woody of speculation and commentary surrounding Lucy Letby's case, overmuch of it from parties with lone a partial presumption of the evidence.

"We inquire that everyone remembers the families affected by events astatine the Countess of Chester Hospital betwixt June 2015 and June 2016.

"We person received a preliminary exertion successful narration to Ms Letby's case, and enactment has begun to measure the application. We expect further submissions being made to us.

"It is not for the CCRC to find innocence oregon guilt successful a case, that's a substance for the courts.

"It is for the CCRC to find, analyse and if appropriate, notation imaginable miscarriages of justness to the appellate courts erstwhile caller grounds oregon caller statement means determination is simply a existent anticipation that a condemnation volition not beryllium upheld, oregon a condemnation reduced."

The CCRC said it is "not possible" to springiness a timeframe implicit however agelong the probe volition take.