Reading list
Media coverage
A curated reading list covering the Letby case — labelled by stance so readers can follow up perspectives they haven’t yet considered.
The New Yorker
A British Nurse Was Found Guilty of Killing Seven Babies. Did She Do It?
By Rachel Aviv
Supports reviewThe single most influential international investigation. Interviews independent neonatologists and statisticians and raises detailed doubts about the medical evidence. Geo-blocked in the UK during the Child K retrial.
13 May 2024
- Supports review
Rolling investigative coverage inside Private Eye's M.D. medical column. One of the earliest UK outlets to raise detailed scepticism about the expert evidence.
2023–ongoing
- Supports review
Former Supreme Court Justice Lord Sumption publicly questions the safety of the convictions on statistical and medical grounds.
2025
BBC News
Rolling case coverage
Neutral reportingBBC coverage of verdicts, Thirlwall Inquiry hearings, Panel press conference and arrests. Broadly neutral reportage.
2023–ongoing
The Guardian
Lucy Letby case coverage
Neutral reportingTrial reporting, Thirlwall Inquiry updates, and opinion pieces from both sides of the safety-of-conviction debate.
2022–ongoing
- Supports review
Columnist Peter Hitchens has argued consistently that the convictions are unsafe, focusing on the statistical and methodological problems.
2023–ongoing
- Supports review
Letter signed by senior barristers and legal academics calling on the CCRC to prioritise the review.
April 2025
- Supports review
Long-form essay reviewing the Panel and statistical criticisms.
2024
- Supports review
Essays examining the expert-evidence concerns.
2024–2025
The Telegraph
Commentary defending the convictions
Defends convictionNot all mainstream commentary supports a review. Several columnists, and some medical commentators, have argued the convictions are safe and the post-conviction narrative is driven by ideology rather than new facts.
2024–ongoing