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September 2026: Thirlwall Inquiry final report published (15 September) — a complete failure to protect babies, 17 recommendations, and no finding on the guilt of Lucy Letby or her convictions · CCRC review continues · inquests relisted to 2027 · Shoo Lee Panel: no medical evidence of deliberate harm.

Lucy Letby Facts

Conflict-map · Post-conviction medical experts

Dr Svilena Dimitrova

NHS consultant neonatologist; GMC complainant

NeonatologyPost-conviction expert claim4Mainstream news

Main contribution

NHS consultant neonatologist who also sits on the government-appointed Ockenden review into a separate NHS maternity scandal. The Guardian reported she was one of five clinicians who approached the GMC over evidence given by prosecution witness Dr Dewi Evans, and that she is separately providing an expert report on individual babies for Letby's legal team.

Key claim

Dimitrova told the Guardian: "the theories proposed in court were not plausible and the prosecution was full of medical inaccuracies." She added: "I wasn't there, so I can't say Letby was innocent, but I can see no proof of guilt," while noting that, like Roger Norwich, she had not had access to the full clinical notes used at trial.

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