Lucy Letby did not murder babies, claim medical experts

Dr Lee provided what he said were highly detailed grounds baby-by-baby for concluding that none of the murders occurred.

He added: “We did not find any murders. In all cases, death or injury were due to natural causes or just bad medical care.”

“Lucy was charged with seven murders and seven attempted murders”, he said.

“In our opinion, the medical opinion, the medical evidence doesn’t support murder in any of these babies.

“Our full report will go to Lucy’s barrister later this month, and then it’ll be up to him and the courts to decide what next to do.”

During Letby’s trial, the prosecution referred to the 1989 paper by Dr Lee that looked at cases of air embolus, referring to injuries caused when air is injected into a baby’s arteries or veins after staff at the Countess of Chester reported skin discoloration on some of the babies.

In the cases Dr Lee analysed in his paper, those injuries had happened accidentally.

The prosecution argued that one of the methods Letby used to injure or kill babies was to inject air into their veins and used Dr Lee’s paper to back that claim.

In the paper, Dr Lee described a distinct discoloration on the babies’ skin in 10% of cases.