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GIST: "Lucy Letby’s parents "firmly believe" their daughter's conviction will be the "biggest miscarriage of justice in history".
The intensely private couple shared their thoughts in a personal message to misrepresentation expert Professor Richard Gill. Professor Gill, known for his role in exonerating several medical professionals falsely accused of murdering patients, such as Dutch nurse Lucia de Berk and Italian nurse Daniela Poggiali, received the communication from Jonathan, 79, and Susan Letby, 65. The Letbys have quietly supported their daughter throughout her trial, which concluded with her receiving 15 life sentences.
The disgraced neo-natal nurse was convicted of the murder of seven infants and the attempted murder of eight others between June 2015 and June 2016 during her tenure at The Countess of Chester Hospital.But there are a number of people, including Professor Gill, who believe the 35-year-old is innocent - despite many others including the victims' families blasting the campaign to free her.
In January her legal team said it would make a fresh bid to challenge her convictions on the grounds the lead prosecution medical expert at her trial was "not reliable". A public inquiry examining events at the Countess of Chester Hospital following Letby's multiple convictions was launched, and findings by chairwoman Lady Justice Thirlwall are expected this autumn.
And in the same month former Tory minister Sir David Davis demanded a retrial for Letby, and claimed she will be cleared. He said there was no "hard evidence" implicating Letby and the case against her was "built on a poor understanding of probabilities".
Sir David told MPs: "If, as I believe it will, a retrial clears Lucy Letby she shall be released in her 30s, not in her 50s."
The Sun now reports that Professor Gill has disclosed to the paper that he has been in contact with Letby's parents, who have remained out of the public eye during the legal process.
He told the paper: "I have written to her parents and I actually got a letter back from them, which was very touching.
"It was two letters because there was a formal letter… the standard one which they send to anyone who sent them a letter, but also a longer personal letter in which they said they knew about what I’d been doing.
"That was a very nice personal letter."
In one correspondence, seen by The Sun, Letby's parents reveal they "firmly believe" their daughter's convictions will be "the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history".https://authory.com/HaroldLevy
Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog.
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com. Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog.
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FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
