The judge chairing an inquiry into an English hospital in which infant serial killer Lucy Letby worked tells a hearing anyone doubting the former nurse's guilt is causing her victims' families 'enormous additional distress'.
It began with a blunt message for anyone doubting the guilt of the UK's most prolific child killer in modern times.
"I make it absolutely clear that it's not for me, as chair of this public inquiry, to set about reviewing the convictions," she told the inquiry at Liverpool Town Hall.And there's a lot of convictions.after last year being found guilty of murdering seven infants and attempting to kill seven more between June 2015 and June 2016.
The inquiry was told there had been a divide between doctors and nurses over whether Letby should be removed from her duties on the neonatal ward once concerns about her possible involvement in the unexpected deaths had been raised. " contacting the police was discussed, however, the decision of the senior managers appears to have been not to approach the police at this stage, but rather to commission reviews in the neonatal unit and inquire into the circumstances of the deaths on the unit," Ms Langdale told the inquiry.
"That spreadsheet is an example of the famous phrase 'lies, damned lies and statistics' because it is a damned, lying statistic; it's utterly misleading," said Richard Gill, a professor of mathematics at Leiden University, who spoke to the ABC ahead of the inquiry.The spreadsheet produced by the prosecution shows which nursing staff were on duty during 25 suspicious deaths or baby collapses in the neonatal ward. Letby is the only name with an X in every box.
Letby has exhausted the appeal options open to her, but is instructing a new legal team to put her claims to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which has the power to send cases back to the courts. Letby gave evidence during her trial that the hospital was rundown, and that she was being used as a scapegoat to cover up deaths that happened for other reasons.
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