Interview With Michele Worden More Lucy Letby Insight

Michele Worden, an advanced neonatal nurse practitioner who worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital, provides insider testimony about conditions on the unit. She describes sewage problems that affected the neonatal ward, an obstetrics department that was chronically understaffed and contributed to avoidable complications, and a pattern of consultant culture that made challenge impossible. She argues that Dr Evans was thoroughly discredited in the medical community long before the trial concluded, and that Dr Bohin's peer review was so superficial as to be meaningless — she rubber-stamped Evans's conclusions without independent clinical analysis. She is particularly critical of the way parents' testimony was used at trial, arguing that grieving parents were encouraged to give evidence in ways that exploited their understandable need for answers, turning natural parental grief into weaponised prosecution material.

Last updated 2026-07-14

2 min read

Notable extracts

Short verbatim extracts from the video. Each quote is under 80 words and attributed to the speaker. Extracted under fair-dealing for review and news reporting (CDPA 1988 s.30).

Michele Worden

Dewi Evans was not credible to anyone who actually worked in neonatal medicine. He was making claims that no experienced neonatologist would recognise. The question is how he was allowed to carry on.

On Dr Evans's clinical credibility among neonatal practitioners

Michele Worden

There was sewage on that unit. There were infection control problems. Obstetrics was nowhere to be seen. These things kill babies — and none of them were put before the jury.

On the hospital conditions the jury did not hear about

Michele Worden

Those parents were told that someone had murdered their children. Of course they believed it. Of course they gave evidence that reflected that belief. That is not their fault — it is the fault of the people who told them.

On the use of parental testimony at trial

Interview With Michele Worden More Lucy Letby Insight

Last updated 2026-07-14

2 min read

Notable extracts

Short verbatim extracts from the video. Each quote is under 80 words and attributed to the speaker. Extracted under fair-dealing for review and news reporting (CDPA 1988 s.30).

Michele Worden

Dewi Evans was not credible to anyone who actually worked in neonatal medicine. He was making claims that no experienced neonatologist would recognise. The question is how he was allowed to carry on.

On Dr Evans's clinical credibility among neonatal practitioners

Michele Worden

There was sewage on that unit. There were infection control problems. Obstetrics was nowhere to be seen. These things kill babies — and none of them were put before the jury.

On the hospital conditions the jury did not hear about

Michele Worden

Those parents were told that someone had murdered their children. Of course they believed it. Of course they gave evidence that reflected that belief. That is not their fault — it is the fault of the people who told them.

On the use of parental testimony at trial

Interview With Michele Worden More Lucy Letby Insight

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