UK: Experts Raise Doubts Over Conviction ‘Babies Killing Nurse’

by Stefan Bos, Worthy News Correspondent

LONDON (Worthy News) – Experts have raised doubts about the conviction of nurse Lucy Letby for killing seven newborn babies after a judge last week ruled that she should never be released.

Sarrita Adams, a California-based scientific consultant for biotech startups, said the woman seen as Britain’s most prolific serial child killer of modern times had suffered “the greatest miscarriage of justice.”

Adams, who has apparently no ties to Letby, is among those noticing holes in the evidence against Letby or issues with how it was presented in court.

Statistician Richard Gill, 72, described Letby’s case as “a trial which would never have taken place if anybody had talked to a statistician.”

Letby, 33, is believed to have tried to kill six additional victims, making her one of the worst child serial killers in modern British history.

She murdered the five baby boys and two baby girls at the neonatal unit of Countess of Chester hospital in northern England over 13 months from 2015, injecting the infants with insulin or air or force-feeding them milk, investigators said.

TWINS ATTACKED

Some of those she attacked were twins, according to evidence given at the trial.

In one case, she murdered both siblings; in another, she killed two of three triplets, the prosecution said. In two instances, she reportedly murdered one twin but failed in her attempts to kill the other.

“This was a cruel, calculated, and cynical campaign of child murder involving the smallest and most vulnerable of children,” said the judge, James Goss, who sentenced her to life imprisonment with no prospect of release.

“There was a deep malevolence bordering on sadism in your actions … You have no remorse. There are no mitigating factors … You will spend the rest of your life in prison,” he added as the parents of the babies sobbed in the courtroom.

Whole-life orders are very rare, according to trial observers. Only three women in Britain received such a sentence before, including serial killers Myra Hindley and Rosemary West.

Police have found no motive for Letby’s crimes, with police officials saying “only Letby” knew the reasons for her actions.

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