Top doctors question conviction of UK killer nurse [Video]

London: An international panel of neonatal and paediatric specialists has raised grave doubts about the evidence used to convict Lucy Letby, a British nurse who was found guilty in 2023 of murdering seven babies at the hospital where she worked and attempting to murder seven others.

In a dramatic news conference in London on Tuesday, the chair of the panel, Dr Shoo Lee, a Canadian neonatologist, said an extensive independent review had found no evidence that Letby had murdered or attempted to kill any of the infants in her care.

He also highlighted what the 14-member panel determined were errors in medical care at the unit where the deaths occurred, at the Countess of Chester Hospital in north-western England, in 2015 and 2016, and serious failings in the management of neonatal conditions. Some …