Hospital data provides a compelling argument. We had a similarly situation here in Indiana 30 years ago. How the hospital missed it for so long is shear incompetence. This guy, Orville Lynn Majors, murdered over 100 patients.
However, suspicion developed when the death rate at VCH jumped significantly after Majors had returned to Indiana. The year before his return to VCH, an average of around 26 patients died annually at the 56-bed hospital and the four-bed intensive care unit.[5] After Majors started working at the facility, however, the rate skyrocketed to more than 100 per year, with nearly one out of every three patients admitted to the hospital dying.[6]
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I agree it could still be her but I find this compelling too.
“In a dramatic news conference in London, the chairman of the panel, Dr. Shoo Lee, a Canadian neonatologist, said an extensive independent review had found no evidence that Ms. Letby had murdered or attempted to kill any of the infants in her care.
He also highlighted what the 14-member panel determined were errors in medical care at the unit where the deaths occurred, at the Countess of Chester Hospital in northwestern England, in 2015 and 2016, and serious failings in the management of neonatal conditions. Some of the deaths had been preventable, he said.
But, Dr. Lee said, “Our conclusion was there was no medical evidence to support malfeasance causing injury in any of the 17 cases in the trial,” referring to the original charge of harming 17 babies. He added: “In summary, ladies and gentlemen, we did not find any murders.”
The review is significant because it was carried out by some of the most respected and experienced neonatal and pediatric specialists in the world.
The findings raise the most serious questions yet about a case that horrified Britain and led to Ms. Letby being called
“the killer nurse” by the news media and vilified as one of the worst serial murderers of children in the country’s modern history. The prosecution told the jury in two trials that she had harmed babies through a macabre range of attacks: injecting them with air, overfeeding them with milk, infusing air into their gastrointestinal tracts and poisoning them with insulin.
However, Ms. Letby was never seen harming a baby and has always maintained her innocence. She was sentenced to spend the rest of her life in prison in 2023, and has already been detained for more than four years, after being charged in November 2020”
After assessing the cases of 17 babies cited at her original trial, a panel of world-renowned specialists said that they had found no evidence that Lucy Letby had murdered anyone.
www.nytimes.com
