Biographies
Key figures in the case
Detailed biographies of the individuals whose decisions, testimony and expert judgement have shaped how the case is now understood. For the wider catalogues, see also Officials & failings, Experts, and The consultants.
Dr Shoo K. Lee
Convenor, International Expert Panel
Professor Emeritus of Paediatrics (Toronto). Lead author of the 1989 air-embolism paper cited by the prosecution. Convened the fourteen-member international panel that reported in February 2025.
Full biography
Dr Ravi Jayaram
Consultant paediatrician, Countess of Chester Hospital
Co-signatory of the September 2016 consultants' letter demanding police involvement. Central eyewitness at the 2024 Child K retrial. Both roles matter; neither collapses into the other.
Full biography
Prof. Richard Gill
Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Statistics, Leiden University
The statistician who helped overturn Lucia de Berk's wrongful conviction in the Netherlands in 2010. Public author of the statistical critique of the Letby shift-rota chart since 2023.
Full biography
Other people on the site
- Officials & failings — Chambers, Harvey, Kelly, Hodkinson, Nichol, Cross, Rees, Powell, Townsend, and the regulators
- The consultants — Brearey, Jayaram, Gibbs, Lambie, Newby, Ventress
- Experts — prosecution experts and the fourteen-member Panel