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Was There Ever A Crime? The Trials of Lucy Letby with John Sweeney

Was There Ever A Crime? The Trials of Lucy Letby with John Sweeney

By: John Sweeney
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 Lucy Letby is Britain’s worst female serial killer in modern times. Or is she? Join John Sweeney and Edward Abel Smith as they reassess the safety of Letby's convictions. On the day she was first convicted, veteran journalist John Sweeney tweeted: “Lucy Letby may well be the victim of a miscarriage of justice, that the Crown has taken a cluster of accidental and natural deaths and pointed the finger at Letby. There is no compelling evidence of a single murder. The law, sometimes, gets it wrong. Follow John on Twitter - @johnsweeneyroar / @edwardabelsmith Please support this independent journalism on our Crowdfunder page - https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/lucy-letby-was-there-ever-a-crimeJohn Sweeney 2024 Politics & Government True Crime
Episodes
  • Episode 8: Post Expert Report Analysis plus our Listener Q&A

    Episode 8: Post Expert Report Analysis plus our Listener Q&A
    Feb 14 2025

    Episode Eight: John Sweeney and Edward Abel Smith are joined by Cleuci De Oliveira for a question and answer session on everything related to the trials of Lucy Letby. But this episode starts with yet another astonishing revelation about one of the four consultants who were Lucy Letby’s primary accusers.
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    52 mins
  • Dr. Dewi Evans full interview

    Dr. Dewi Evans full interview
    Feb 4 2025

    Today, on February 4th, 2025, we have heard the first complete report by the international panel of medical experts gathered by Lucy Letby's legal team under the guidence of Dr. Shoo Lee. The report summary was presented in London at a press conference hosted by Sir David Davis, the senior Conservative party MP who has raised questions about the case and declared his certainty that this is a miscarriage of justice.

    The 14 member panel which includes world renowned experts in neonatology and pediatric medicine was established to asses the case notes of the 17 babies that formed Lucy Letby's two trials. Their conclusion and summary of the medical evidence is crystal clear, they can find no evidence of murder or attempted murder. Dr. Lee and the panel can however find countless examples across the case files of failures in medical care and, chronically sick babies collapsing and dying of natural causes. The experts conclusions stand in stark contrast to Dr. Evans' evidence for the prosecution.

    In light of this report we felt it was important to hear Dr. Dewi Evan’s interview with John and Ed in full.

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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Episode 7: Unreliable Witness?

    Episode 7: Unreliable Witness?
    Dec 20 2024

    Unreliable Witness? As questions rise about the credibility of the Crown’s star expert witness, Dr Dewi Evans, in this episode co-hosts John Sweeney and Edward Abel Smith go back in time to a 34-year-old scandal when a boy suffering a treatable disease died wholly unnecessarily in his hospital. The evidence pointed to GPs being negligent and forging medical notes. Dr Evans stands accused of taking part in a cover-up. If so, Dr Evans may be a key player in not one terrible miscarriage of justice, but two.

    This is a wholly independent produced podcast. We are crowd funding for the legal costs, if you wish to contribute please visit our crowdfunder page here.
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    43 mins
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John Sweeney is simply brilliant - but it should have to be, if only people had listened to him and others warning for years.

Brilliant

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Just couldn't make this up... Some of the moments in this podcast are insane.

An excellent listen

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This brilliant, logical analysis is certainly worth listening to. It sheds light on how misleading the prosecution’s narrative was- Since listening to this podcast I am unable to read or listen to the evidence wrong, however, I admit I struggle with Lucy Letby’s defence to such terrible accusations and don’t understand how composed she seems when denying the claims, which we know were focused around unworthy statistical evidence relating to her presence on the ward. Yet the parents who remember their encounters with Lucy cannot be lying about their feelings of unease in her company.. But it could be that Lucy Letby ‘s professional mode is perceived as hostile? we’ll never really know. We do know that personality is not a punishable crime and proof beyond doubt has not been proven so far, And in light of the evidence from the neonatal professionals analysis which cannot be ignored, will hopefully reveal the truth.

What if the jury got it wrong?

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