LONDON — (AP) — A panel of experts has disputed the medical evidence used to convict British nurse Lucy Letby of murdering seven newborns and trying to kill seven others, a doctor who led the examination said Tuesday.
The group found no sign of a crime and concluded that natural causes or bad medical care led to the demise of each of the newborns, Dr. Shoo Lee, a retired neonatologist from Canada, said.
“In summary, then, ladies and gentlemen, we did not find any murders,” Lee said at a London news conference.
Letby, 35, is serving multiple life sentences with no chance of release after being convicted of murder and attempted murder while working as a neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital in northwestern England between June 2015 and June 2016.
Defense lawyer Mark McDonald said there was now “overwhelming evidence” Letby was wrongly convicted and she’s “sitting in prison …