Lucy Letby press conference: nurse ‘did not murder babies’ — as it happened
Panel of medical experts said all deaths could be explained by natural causes or poor care and called for former nurse’s convictions to be reviewed
Dr Lee: ‘If you don’t believe us, who will you believe?’
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Dr Shoo Lee said he took on the Lucy Letby investigation because he “could not see how we could send an innocent woman to jail for the rest of her life”.
Speaking to the PA news agency after the press conference, he said he was contacted about the case in relation to a possible appeal and, after looking at transcripts, he became “concerned that there was a problem with this conviction because the evidence that’s being used to convict her, regardless of whether she is innocent or guilty, was wrong”.
He added: “Something more needed to be done and so I decided that I would step up, even though this is not in Canada, and really nothing to do with me if you want to think of it that way, but for me it was important because it is about right and wrong.
“I approached the solicitors to say I would be willing to look at the evidence to see whether or not there was a problem with the evidence.
“And if there was then I would be willing to convene a panel that would have the authority and the weight to say this is what we think really happened … this is no longer just one physician standing up to say Lucy Letby was wrongly accused, this is the panel of 14 of the world’s top experts. If you don’t believe them, who will you believe?”
