Lucy Letby BBC Panorama Dewi Evans Plays Another Blinder

The host analyses Dewi Evans's contribution to the BBC Panorama documentary, finding it uniquely self-damaging. He reconstructs the full May 2017 timeline using Evans's own contradictory statements about how he came to work on the case — the story shifts from reading a Sunday paper to seeing a Guardian article — and characterises Evans as an unreliable narrator who believes information disappears on the internet. Most significantly, Evans states on camera that he concluded inflicted injury had occurred within a matter of minutes of seeing the notes, then defends changing his diagnosis of Child C by saying it does not matter whether the mechanism was air into the stomach or air into the bloodstream since both represent deliberate harm. The host demonstrates in detail why those two mechanisms produce entirely different clinical pictures, making Evans's position technically incoherent. The host also revisits Evans's comment that rival experts perhaps do not know as much as they think, contrasted with Professor Nina Modi's exceptional credentials.

Last updated 2026-07-14

2 min read

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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).

Host (Speaker 1)

Evans says he concluded criminal harm within a matter of minutes. Previously it was ten minutes. The story is getting shorter. By his next interview he may say he decided before he arrived at the police station.

On Evans's progressively shortened account of how quickly he reached his conclusion

Host (Speaker 1)

He says it does not matter whether the air went into the stomach or into the bloodstream. It matters enormously. The clinical pictures are completely different. If he cannot tell the difference, he has no diagnosis at all.

On Evans's claim that the two mechanisms are interchangeable

Host (Speaker 1)

Professor Nina Modi has been President of the UK Neonatal Society, President of the Academic Paediatric Association, Chair of the BMJ Ethics Committee. Evans says she perhaps does not know as much as she thinks she does. I leave people to reflect on that.

On Evans's dismissal of the panel experts

Lucy Letby BBC Panorama Dewi Evans Plays Another Blinder

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).

Host (Speaker 1)

Evans says he concluded criminal harm within a matter of minutes. Previously it was ten minutes. The story is getting shorter. By his next interview he may say he decided before he arrived at the police station.

On Evans's progressively shortened account of how quickly he reached his conclusion

Host (Speaker 1)

He says it does not matter whether the air went into the stomach or into the bloodstream. It matters enormously. The clinical pictures are completely different. If he cannot tell the difference, he has no diagnosis at all.

On Evans's claim that the two mechanisms are interchangeable

Host (Speaker 1)

Professor Nina Modi has been President of the UK Neonatal Society, President of the Academic Paediatric Association, Chair of the BMJ Ethics Committee. Evans says she perhaps does not know as much as she thinks she does. I leave people to reflect on that.

On Evans's dismissal of the panel experts

Lucy Letby BBC Panorama Dewi Evans Plays Another Blinder

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