Is it “crass” to question Lucy Letby’s guilt? | The Daily T Podcast

David Davis has told The Daily T he thinks “the balance of probabilities” is that killer nurse Lucy Letby is innocent, as the health secretary has says the public campaign to free her is “crass and insensitive”.

With an inquiry into her crimes due to begin this week, veteran Tory MP Davis is in the studio again to reveal his own conclusions about Letby’s case. We also hear from a Cambridge statistician who has raised concerns about the evidence used to convict the nurse of murdering seven babies.

Plus, is Labour brave enough to reform the NHS? Ahead of the publication of a damning report on the health service, Camilla and Gordon ask why the new government is overlooking one its biggest crises: social care.

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[johnvaleanbaily]

I have no idea if she's guilty or not, but if there are questionable aspects to the case, evidence or witness statement then there needs to be a review of some sort to clarify the state of affairs.

[flossie]

The way we're being told not to question the conviction makes me doubt it's safety even more. I feel like something is being swept under the carpet.

[rextemplar]

Facts don't care about your feelings. if there is a miscarriage of justice it must be looked into.

[eluke]

Take her as a baby sitter to your new borns

[greggpedder]

That speech by Wes Streeting is not going to age well.

[MrUltrasound]

CCRC disbanding and needs relocation to USA

[musiqueetmontagne]

It is never crass to re-examine a case which may or may not prevent a miscarriage of justice. A civilised society must be willing to at least look..

[PaulThatcher-iuin]

"Speculation" about Lucy Letby's guilt "is causing families enormous stress", we are told. Well, sorry, but the idea that someone can be convicted of serial murder on the basis of inaccurate statistics, "confession" notes which turn out to be written at the suggestion of a therapist, and the discovery that the whole unit and hospital were "out of their depth" causes me and a lot of others "distress", too, as does the idea that Lucy Letby might simply have been made the scapegoat for others' failings. The feelings of the families are, alas, secondary to the needs of justice.

[cupofteawithpoetry]

I believe Lucy is an NHS scapegoat. Like many others, I felt something wasn't right from the start. Staff washed their hands in that infected tap water before handling the babies and their catheters etc. I assume the babies were bathed in that water too. Also, bacteria like that would have spread easily between the sets of twins and triplets. Seems the puzzle pieces are coming together.

[greenmantle]

crass?! No, this needs seriously looked at and needs publicity to get it looked at.

[nozyspy]

How is it 'crass' to re-examine a case where there is no forensic evidence, no eyewitnesses to the crime and was based almost entirely on statistics? Given the number of miscarriages of justice there have been by juries who were 'sure' of the guilt of the accused it is only right and proper that such cases are re-examined. Multiple times if necessary.

[JEZ-pkvp]

Mr Davis is a very courageous man, I applaud him for his quest for justice in what seems from the very start to be an unsafe conviction,

[MrBaritone]

A free society has the right to seek the truth, professionals often get it wrong too. So I believe it's not crass to re examine the case. Well done David Davies!

[dianamincher]

The convictions are unsafe? There was no proof beyond doubt! Avenues of appeal are unjustly closed! Do something!

[maureenball]

How can a dysfunctioning ward end up blaming a nurse for the extra deaths? We need to KNOW.

[chrissmith]

The families of the babies should be happy that people are looking for the truth, because if this is a systemic failure of hospital, then more lives will be saved if it is properly dealt with instead of the hospital scapegoating a nurse, and the hospital 'gets away with it'...

[davelowe]

The statistics are important. If there were say 40 suspicious deaths and Letby was only tried on 20 and convicted of 10, then that implies that 75% of the deaths were not caused by her. In that instance, one seeks to find another common explanation for all 40 deaths with a better success rate than 25%. The hunt is on.

[TheBezaleel]

Case needs to be totally reviewed now.

[trevorchap]

Evans, the Prosecution's lead medical witness has previously been described by a senior judge (Lord Jackson) as being guilty of a "breach of proper professional conduct" with his evidence described as "worthless".Is this the type of person a court should be principally relying upon to send a dedicated nurse of impeccable character to prison for the rest of her life?

[samsung]

Would they think it CRASS, if they were sitting in a cell?