
Seven pediatric doctors and experts in toxicology said on Thursday that the jurors were seduced by prosecutors who, during the trial of Lucy Letby, quoted unreliable insulin tests convicted of killing seven babies at a British hospital.
The doctors have made their claims in a new report that lawyer Ms Letby filed for the British Commission for Criminal Cases, which is responsible for investigating possible abortions of justice, hoping to allow them to fully complain of her 15 life sentences.
Mrs. Letby, who worked as a nurse in a neonatal unit at a hospital in North England, was found guilty of 2023 for deliberately harmed – and in seven cases, murders – their baby injected the air, crashing them with milk, pulling air into their gastrointestinal tracts of the tool.
In a new report, experts, involving forensic toxicologists, professors of forensic sciences and endocrinologist who wrote many times peer -reviewed Works on the mistakes in medical tests, attacked the validity of evidence of insulin poisoning that the prosecution used on trial.
“Our inevitable conclusion is that these evidence significantly undermines the validity of the claims made of insulin and C-peptide testing presented in court,” they wrote in a summary of a report provided to journalists by her legal team.
Mrs. Letby always maintained her innocence. From her two trials, Serious questions they grew up about her guilt including the UA 13,000 words of the New Yorker article Last May. But the efforts of the lawyer to re -open the case with a full appeal are repeatedly rejected.
The new report focused on two babies – known as Baby F and L – whose blood sugar levels dropped to low levels, but later recovered. Mrs. Letby was convicted of trying to kill two babies by adding insulin to their food, causing a condition called hypoglycemia.
Tests suggest that babies had a high level of insulin, but only a negligible amount of C-peptide, a substance detected when the body produces insulin. The prosecution claimed that insulin therefore must be applied from the outside.
In a new report, experts represent what they describe as “convincing new evidence from multiple sources” showing serious problems with the test results used to show that Mrs. Letby poisoned two babies insulin.
They said the test, called “Roche Immunological Test”, knew it was “falsely high insulin results”. They also claimed that there were other ways to receive a newborn insulin, including placenta while in the mother’s womb.
Experts said that when the jurors were presented with evidence of insulin level found in a small infant, the prosecution was related to the wrong information.
“Studies in adults and older children who are not relevant and limited appropriate information have not been sent,” they wrote, “they wrote.
They said that the test “did not satisfy the acceptable forensic standards” and that the results of Roche test, in particular, should not trust without being confirmed by more accurate laboratory tests.
Laboratory Royal Liverpool Hospitals, where tests were conducted explicitly warned in their internet guidance that they were “Not appropriate” For low blood sugar testing created by insulin injection. “If an exogenous use of insulin is suspected as a cause of hypoglycemia, please notify the laboratory so that the sample can be referred to an analysis from the outside,” it is said. But both babies recovered, so their samples were never sent anywhere else.
Experts said prosecutors and police did not consider other ways in which babies became hypoglycemia, except for the bad game.
“There are alternative medical explanations that explain hypoglycemia in both babies, such as the failure of the line, sepsis and perinatal hyperinsulinism caused by stress,” they wrote. “These alternative options are not considered.”
Questions about insulin poisoning charges were publicly asked by doctors in months since the trial. The 86 -page report on Thursday is the effort of Mark McDonald, lawyer Ms Letby, to present these questions to the Commission in a formal way.
“The conclusions of the F and L Babies reports clearly show that the case must be returned to the appeal to the appellant as an emergency issue,” Mr. McDonald said in a statement.
He added: “Lucy Letby is currently in prison serving 15 candidates all their lives, when irresistible independent experts indicate that the babies have not been killed.”
In a A statement from a public investigation Last month, lawyers representing some of the baby families who died or were harmed at the Countess Chester Hospital said: “Families have no doubt about Letby’s guilt.”
Mr. McDonald also filed a commission for revision of criminal cases full of testing of Mrs. Letby’s case by a separate expert council, led by a well -known Canadian neonatologist Dr. Shoo Leewho examined their discoveries in February. This report concluded that “there is no medical evidence that would support the abuse that cause death or injury in any of the 17 cases in trial.”