WATCH & STREAM on 5 Lucy Letby: Scapegoat? Monday, September 21 at 10pm
------------------------------------------------------------PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Also in The Sun’s documentary…"A whistleblower says Lucy Letby may have been ‘scapegoat’ to cover up failures at the unit: A mum says she believes her boy died of a sewage-linked bug that came from the taps months after Letby was removed from the unit Evidence that could have helped Letby’s defence ‘wasn’t heard in court’ An unseen bombshell email sent by a doctor who was the only Letby eyewitness CONTRADICTS his evidence to jury.""
STORY: "Was there a fatal flaw in Letby trial? Top doctor tells The Sun why evidence used to convict murderer MUST be reviewed," by Investigations Editor Rob Pattison, published by 'The Sun' on September 20, 2026.
SUB-HEADING: "It's IMPOSSIBLE Letby's "victims" died that way' - top surgeon's damning verdict undermines prosecution star witness.
GIST: "NONE of the babies died from the method of murder used in court to convict Lucy Letby, an exclusive Sun documentary will reveal.
Leading experts have raised serious doubt over the theory the nurseinjected the six or seven victims with air – put forward by prosecution medical advisor Dewi Evans.
Vascular Dr Colin Ferguson started examining the case after Letby’s trialCredit: Dan Charity
Vascular Dr Colin Ferguson, who spent his career treating blood vessels and blood flow, began examining the case after following Letby’s ten-month trial.
The former director of professional affairs for the Royal College of Surgeons said: “These babies have not died from air embolism.
“The fact that six, if not seven, babies are meant to have died from air embolism and in none of these cases was air found in the heart at post-mortem means that this is just not true.
“There isn’t any evidence that it’s happened and somehow they have managed to convince a whole range of people that there’s a possibility that it did.”
Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
A major part of the prosecution case was that she deliberately injected air into the bloodstream of babies, causing potentially fatal air embolisms.
The Crown’s medical expert Dr Dewi Evans described injected air travelling through the veins to the right side of the heart.
He and neontologist Sandie Bohin, who peer reviewed his reports for the court, agreed a sufficiently large volume could obstruct circulation in the heart and cause rapid death.
Also in The Sun’s documentary…"A whistleblower says Lucy Letby may have been ‘scapegoat’ to cover up failures at the unit: A mum says she believes her boy died of a sewage-linked bug that came from the taps months after Letby was removed from the unit Evidence that could have helped Letby’s defence ‘wasn’t heard in court’ An unseen bombshell email sent by a doctor who was the only Letby eyewitness CONTRADICTS his evidence to jury.""
SUB-HEADING: "It's IMPOSSIBLE Letby's "victims" died that way' - top surgeon's damning verdict undermines prosecution star witness.
GIST: "NONE of the babies died from the method of murder used in court to convict Lucy Letby, an exclusive Sun documentary will reveal.
Leading experts have raised serious doubt over the theory the nurseinjected the six or seven victims with air – put forward by prosecution medical advisor Dewi Evans.
Vascular Dr Colin Ferguson started examining the case after Letby’s trialCredit: Dan Charity
Anyone who dies from the condition – known as air embolism – will have air visible in the heart, where bubbles create a lock and stop it pumping, experts claim.
However, an exclusive Sun documentary being aired on 5 tonight will reveal NONE of the murder indictment babies had air found where researchers would expect.
The evidence has been reviewed by a team made-up of a vascular surgeon, neonatologist, and diving medics.
It raises the serious possibility no known method of murder now exists for all the babies Lucy Letby is behind bars for killing.
However, an exclusive Sun documentary being aired on 5 tonight will reveal NONE of the murder indictment babies had air found where researchers would expect.
The evidence has been reviewed by a team made-up of a vascular surgeon, neonatologist, and diving medics.
It raises the serious possibility no known method of murder now exists for all the babies Lucy Letby is behind bars for killing.
Dr Ferguson disputes the prosecution explanation that air responsible for a fatal embolism could subsequently have been absorbed
Vascular Dr Colin Ferguson, who spent his career treating blood vessels and blood flow, began examining the case after following Letby’s ten-month trial.
The former director of professional affairs for the Royal College of Surgeons said: “These babies have not died from air embolism.
“The fact that six, if not seven, babies are meant to have died from air embolism and in none of these cases was air found in the heart at post-mortem means that this is just not true.
“There isn’t any evidence that it’s happened and somehow they have managed to convince a whole range of people that there’s a possibility that it did.”
Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
A major part of the prosecution case was that she deliberately injected air into the bloodstream of babies, causing potentially fatal air embolisms.
The Crown’s medical expert Dr Dewi Evans described injected air travelling through the veins to the right side of the heart.
He and neontologist Sandie Bohin, who peer reviewed his reports for the court, agreed a sufficiently large volume could obstruct circulation in the heart and cause rapid death.
Also in The Sun’s documentary…"A whistleblower says Lucy Letby may have been ‘scapegoat’ to cover up failures at the unit: A mum says she believes her boy died of a sewage-linked bug that came from the taps months after Letby was removed from the unit Evidence that could have helped Letby’s defence ‘wasn’t heard in court’ An unseen bombshell email sent by a doctor who was the only Letby eyewitness CONTRADICTS his evidence to jury.""
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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. 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. 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; 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;
