Josh Halliday

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Today in Focus · Lucy Letby inquiry finds babies could have been saved - The Latest · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

Yeah, the prosecution's case was that Lucy Letby deliberately poisoned two babies with insulin and she was convicted of those offences.

But there was no record of who had taken it, no proper record or digital record or nothing that you could trace to say who had taken out the insulin and how had they used it.

There are further calls for reform into how hospital managers have to provide a duty of candour when they're dealing with people like coroners and that there should be a barring system for unfit managers in the NHS because there was a concern that you can essentially fail upwards in the NHS in one hospital but then get moved somewhere else, perhaps to a different part of the country where you can start again with a clean slate.

But one thing I thought was quite surprising in the report was that Lady Justice Thirlwall said she had little confidence or said she was not reassured that the government would implement these recommendations because it has a terrible track record of implementing the recommendations of inquiries into health scandals going back 30 years.

Yes, so very soon after the trial ended at Manchester Crown Court, there were concerns about how some of the prosecution evidence was presented to jurors, in particular statistics that showed that she was the only member of staff on duty for each of the suspicious deaths and collapses.

That was disputed by quite highly regarded statisticians

And then medical experts really started to look at the very complex medical evidence that was presented to jurors and started to find weaknesses in that as well.

One of the most difficult things about all this was that at the trial, there were no defense medical experts speaking on behalf of Lucy Letby.

She didn't call a single medical expert to challenge any of the really complex medical evidence.

So the jury were essentially left with

all of these prosecution witnesses, you know, which backed up the prosecution's case that she was guilty, but then didn't have anyone casting doubt on these at the time until much later.

And then as medical experts started to raise concerns publicly,

And remember, this is a really difficult thing for medical experts to do as well, to put their professional reputations on the line, to challenge the convictions in a case that is so sensitive, polarizing and emotional

So the Criminal Cases Review Commission has been looking at a dossier of evidence compiled by Letby's defence team since February last year.

They're expected to decide within months whether to refer the case back to the Court of Appeal.

They've been monitoring the Thirlwall inquiry, as you would expect them to do, because they want to be across every single detail of the case.

And this 822-page report is really meticulous in how it records.

what happened at the hospital at that time.

I don't think that this will have a huge bearing on the outcome of the CCRC investigation because it doesn't touch on medical evidence.

It's not about whether these babies were murdered or not.

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