Lucy Letby public inquiry report findings to be published after repeated delays – latest updates
A number of doctors, scientists and statisticians have publicly challenged the way the evidence was presented to jurors at her trial.Lady Justice Thirlwall was appointed to chair the inquiry in September 2023. It says its aim is to seek “answers for the victims’ families” and ensure that “lessons are learned”.The report was first expected to have been published in November 2025 but was set back by a string of delays.Inquests into the deaths of babies who Letby was convicted of murdering are to take place in May 2027.Share
- ▪A number of doctors, scientists and statisticians have publicly challenged the way the evidence was presented to jurors at her trial.Lady Justice Thirlwall was appointed to chair the inquiry in September 2023.
- ▪It says its aim is to seek “answers for the victims’ families” and ensure that “lessons are learned”.The report was first expected to have been published in November 2025 but was set back by a string of delays.Inquests into the deaths of ba
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- ▪ Lucy Letby Murder Inquiry to Issue Report, Though Experts Say She May Not Be Guilty — NYT — World
- ▪ Lucy Letby public inquiry findings set to be published — BBC News — UK
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06.24 EDTLucy Letby inquiry report to be published after repeated delaysThe findings of the long-awaited Thirlwall inquiry – set up to examine how the former nurse Lucy Letby was able to murder babies at a neonatal unit over a two-year period – is set to be published early this afternoon.Letby, now 36, was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more in 2015 and 2016, when she worked as a nurse in the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester hospital.She was sentenced to 15 whole-life orders, and was twice denied permission to appeal against her convictions in 2024.However, the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates potential miscarriages of justice, is considering evidence presented on Letby’s behalf by an international panel of medics who claim…
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