Neonatal Nurse Lucy Letby: UKArticulate Letby supporter Dr. Phil Hammond's reaction to Panorama's production 'Lucy Letby: Who to Believe? Part 3' - noting that, having finished watching the BBC production, "What struck me most is that - like me - they still haven't managed to find a single expert to come out and endorse either Evans or Bohin for their theories that the deaths could only have been caused by deliberate harm and specifically air injected into a vein or air injected into the stomach. Why does no other expert want to endorse that? I’ve been looking for nearly 2 years now and I’ve not found anyone credible to support this view. Indeed, as you will see, he had much more to say!

JOURNALIST: BROADCASTER: SPEAKER: CAMPAIGNER: (AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT) COMEDIAN DR PHIL HAMMOND"S OFFICIAL . BIOGRAPHY: "Dr Phil Hammond is a retired NHS doctor (2022), but still works as a journalist, broadcaster, speaker, campaigner and comedian.  He was a GP for 20 years, worked in sexual health and as a lecturer in medical communication at two universities (Birmingham and Bristol).  He spent 11 years in a specialist team for young people with severe fatigue, including post viral fatigue, ME and long Covid.  Phil is Private Eye’s medical correspondent and possibly the only comedian to have appeared at a Public Inquiry; his coverage of the pandemic in Private Eye was highly praised, and a book of the columns – Dr Hammond’s Covid Casebook – was a Sunday Times bestseller.  His other books are Trust Me, I’m a Doctor – with Michael Mosley – Trust Me, I’m Still a Doctor, Medicine Balls, Sex, Sleep or Scrabble?  and Staying Alive – How to Improve Your Health and Your Healthcare. As a comedian, Phil was half of the award-winning double-act Struck Off and Die, with Tony Gardner.  They won a Writer’s Guild Award, a Silver Sony Award and received record numbers of complaints to the Broadcasting Standards Council.  He has done Edinburgh fringe shows since 1990 and four solo UK tours, and has appeared on Have I Got News For You, Question Time, Countdown, The One Show and Long Live Britain.  His NHS comedy Polyoaks, written with David Spicer, had five series on Radio 4. He also presented multiple series of Pillories of the State, The Music Group and The Motion Show for Radio 4.  In his Radio 4 series – Dr Phil’s Bedside Manner – Phil toured NHS hospitals, chatting intimately with staff, patients, carers and volunteers, and then cheered them up with a comedy show.  Phil took two shows to the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe: Dr Hammond’s Covid Inquiry and How I Ruined Medicine, which is also available on BBC Sounds along with his new podcast, Doctor Doctor. He was at the Fringe again in 2024 with Fifty Minutes to Save the NHS   with Dame Clare Gerada, and The Ins and Outs of Pleasure. Phil is reuniting with Tony Gardner for a comedy on Radio 4 called Doctor on Hold, due to be broadcast in November 2025. And he has spent the last 18 months investigating whether the nurse Lucy Letby committed the crimes she has been found guilty of. All his columns on the Trial of Lucy Letby are available here 

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PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "The CCRC (Criminal Cases Review Commission) needs to get this back to the court of appeal as soon as possible, preferably in front of some judges who understand science and know how to separate it from bullshit."

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PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "

PANORAMA"   'Lucy Letby: Who to Believe? Part  3', produced by the  BBC  one August 12, 2025, at the link below:

GIST: "I’ve just finished watching Panorama on Letby (Part 3). What struck me most is that - like me - they still haven’t managed to find a single expert to come out and endorse either Evans or Bohin for their theories that the deaths could only have been caused by deliberate harm and specifically air injected into a vein or air injected into the stomach. Why does no other expert want to endorse that? I’ve been looking for nearly 2 years now and I’ve not found anyone credible to support this view. The cases of rashes that were remembered conveniently to support accusations of an air embolism before Dr Shoo Lee destroyed this association needed a bit more time. Dr Jayaram’s referral for perjury over Baby K was given airtime, but he is refusing to comment like Dr. Brearey. Unsurprisingly, some defence experts have different views on how and why the babies died, but they are unanimous in that they can’t find any evidence of deliberate harm. Neil Aiton was very sensible. “I’ve written my report, just judge me on that”. Let’s hope one day we can see all the reports. McDonald said on the ITV documentary that they have at least been offered to the parents. Most experts say that immunoassay tests aren’t definitive enough to support murder charges, particularly in neonates. And when you have access to the clinical records, there are very clear reasons why the babies were hypoglycaemic, which had everything to do with poor management and nothing to do with added insulin. Others believe the most likely explanation for the test results is exogenous insulin, but there is clearly significant doubt. And Letby was never caught adding insulin into feed bags, which adds to the doubt. We could have done with an explanation of baby Y, the third insulin baby that had the same blood result pattern as the other two, but instead of alleged poisoning ended up with a diagnosis of congenital hyperinsulinism which Evans thinks is wrong, but apparently has not been reversed. So it may be entirely plausible for babies to have that blood pattern without exogenous insulin. The new evidence about tube dislodgement has not been properly scrutinised by anyone, I suspect because they’ve realised they’ve got the maths wrong. Let’s hope the CPS get proper statistical input this time, before considering further charges. The biggest missed opportunity was not to focus more on the prosecution expert evidence. There are so many contradictions and U-turns along the way - when they repeatedly spot deliberate harm only to discover Letby was not on duty - it is clear they were trying to find evidence to support a narrative of murder having spotted the liver damage which every new expert who has looked at it says was not caused by blunt trauma from Letby. Whether subcapsular liver haematomas occurred during birth or during repeated episodes of hypoxia, whether they ruptured spontaneously, during resuscitation attempts, or because of a needle inserted by a doctor has nothing to do with Letby. The CCRC

@ccrcupdate

needs to get this back to the court of appeal as soon as possible, preferably in front of some judges who understand science and know how to separate it from bullshit. In the meantime, there’s a Channel 4 documentary to come."

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(Link to documentary home page)"

https://www.tvguide.co.uk/schedule/8a05a59f-748a-54f3-b3d0-35ec19f4caf0/panorama-lucy-letby-

who-to-believe

Link to Dr, Hammond's tweet: 

https://x.com/drphilhammond/status/1954945975249690958?s=51&t=LWGi0OBBxYI7xwG6SzAbEQ

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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.

SEE BREAKDOWN OF  SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG,  AT THE LINK BELOW:  HL:

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120008354894645705/4704913685758792985

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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;

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