Lucy Letby and the Thirlwall Inquiry: Was it Premature?

The

publication of Lady Justice Thirlwall’s Report of the Public Inquiry

into the Events at the Countess of Chester Hospital 2015-2018 (https://thirlwall.public-inquiry.uk/the-report/#Summary-report-on-report-page) has reignited the sharply

divided – and almost entirely uninformed - public debate about the safety of

Lucy Letby’s convictions on 7 counts of murdering, and 8 counts of attempting

to murder, new born babies in the hospital’s neo-natal unit between June 2015

and June 2016.

 

Without

expressing any view on whether Letby was rightly convicted after a fair trial

or is the victim of the greatest miscarriage of justice in English legal

history, Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC discuss the core findings of the