Why did medical experts dispute the evidence to convict Lucy Latbi?

The guilty serial killer Lucy Latbi is back into the news after a panel of medical experts working with his defense team, saying he believes that 35 -year -old did not kill.

The case against the former nurse has been extremely complicated since the beginning – not at least because no one convicted latebi for attacking seven children, nor did anyone attempts to kill seven other people.

Instead, the prosecutors had to draw technical medical evidence – along with other troubled details about the statistical data and latest life of latebies – to prove their case.

He was found guilty by a jury and punished for his whole life. Senior judges twice rejected his efforts to turn his beliefs – but A The new report claims that latebi is a victim of justice abortion,

Fourteen senior doctors around the world have analyzed medical evidence against latebi, which includes British doctor Nina Modi, former president of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health.

The panel was given a retired Canadian doctor located at the University of Toronto. Shoo was assembled by Lee, who specializes in the treatment of young children. He said that the panel worked without payment and was not familiar with the case before reviewing the evidence.

Dr. Lee joined with the rescue of Latbi, when he was used by prosecutors after being aware of an educational letter of 1989, which he co-authored as part of his case.

The paper focused on how the skin’s skin can be disappointed with the avatarism of air. It was relevant as the prosecutors successfully argued that Latbi attacked some of his victims and attacked them, leading to a deadly avatarism.

Dr. Lee has accused the prosecution of misinterpreting his research and has since published an update, which exempt a link between scars on skin and air embolism.

Last year, he offered to provide evidence on behalf of Latbi during his appeal and said that in fact, his research was misused by prosecution.

However, three senior judges Decided Dr. Lee’s submissions should not be considered on the field by the court, said that the prosecution did not rely on the evidence of skin disintegration to diagnose an inner mischief at any point.

The new report is beyond the embolism question. Dr. Lee has already spoken. BBC News has only seen a summary because a full copy has not been made publicly available.

On Tuesday, Dr. Lee said the panel believes that all the victims of latebi died of really natural causes or due to poor medical care.

He said, “There was no medical evidence to support the malfunction due to death or injury,” he told at a news conference, before he alleged that the counties of the newborn unit of Chester Hospital had many extensive failures, where there Latbi worked.

The report in return belongs to all 14 deceased infants.

In a case in which latebi was convicted of killing a child by injecting the air in its stomach, the panel stated that their analysis indicated the cause of natural respiratory complications and deaths arising from chronic lung disease.

Additionally, he said that doctors had failed to detect a bacterial disease and should have prescribed antibiotics.

In a case where latebi was convicted of removing a tube and attacking a child, who was allowing the baby to breathe, Dr. Lee said the panel analysis suggests that the baby had collapsed as it was first fitted with a wrong -sized tube by an advisor. “Didn’t know what he was doing”.

There are similar conclusions for all latest victims: the panel said that all deaths can be explained by natural causes or medical errors.

However, the criminal case against Latbi did not rely on special medical evidence.

The prosecutors also stated that when the children fell ill, she was in the shift, as well as the circumstantial evidence – with the fact that she repeatedly researched the families of the deceased and kept a record, which a judge said that her said that her There were “sick records” of crimes.

Speaking at the Tuesday’s news conference, Mark McDonald – Barrister argued to protect the latebi – that the circumstantial evidence was of “low” importance in the case against the nurse compared to medical evidence.

Two last unsuccessful efforts of latebi means that he cannot just lodge another. Instead, its defense team is trying to use another route to get a judge to re -investigate the case.

He has submitted an application for the Review Commission (CCRC), an independent public body that examines the potential abortion of justice.

CCRC cannot decide whether a person is innocent or guilty, but it can refer to a case back to the court if it decides that there is a real possibility that someone has been found incorrectly guilty .

Latbi’s legal team will need to show that they have highlighted new evidence that shows that he could be innocent to bring the case back to court.

They say, Dr. Lee’s findings are formed.

However, it will eventually be up to CCRC – and potentially appeal court – to determine whether this is the case.

Medical evidence against latebi was deeply analyzed during its testing and it can be decided that the panel’s arguments were already fully considered and rejected.

On Tuesday, CCRC stated that it received a “initial application” from latey lawyers. Dr. Lee said he would not provide a legal team of latebi with his full report by the end of the month, so it may still be some time when CCRC reaches a decision.

Dr. Davi Evans – who was the chief medical expert of the prosecution – dismissed the suggestion that Dr. Lee’s 1989 paper was an important part of the case against Latbi.

Speaking before the summary of the conclusions of the panel, Dr. Evans were published Told Sunday Times Research “was not a major factor in the prosecution case”.

He said: “The prosecution said that some of these infants, as part of their collapse, had a skin disintegration, described in Dr. Lee’s paper in 1989, but – and – it is an important but it is an important but – The absence of appearance or absence of the skin neither confirmed the air embolism nor was it necessary.

“This is a useful paper – I do not want to bottom it – but comparing how children responded to treatment in the 1980s that they respond to treatment in 2015, it is different.”

A public inquiry led by Lady Justice Thirwell is being investigated by the counties to the reaction to the deaths of Chester Hospital. She has been highly critical for those who have suspected the decision, saying that it causes “additional crisis for parents”.

The case has also inspired what a KC Barrister has described Online as “spread the principles of conspiracy”,

Dr. Lee’s intervention is not the first time experts have expressed concern about late punishment: a group of 24 newborn experts Pushed to delay public investigation Because they believed that “optional, potentially complex causes” for deaths were not investigated and “significant lessons” were remembered.

BBC is earlier also Talked to experts who have raised doubts About some evidence used to convict latebi. However, no one had gone to say that she felt that she could be innocent.