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In each of the seventeen cases this panel reviewed, we found no medical evidence of deliberate harm.

Shoo Lee International Expert Panel — 3 February 2025

In each of the seventeen cases this panel reviewed, we found no medical evidence of deliberate harm.

Dr Shoo Lee, press conference, London

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The skin discolouration described at the Letby trial does not match the findings in our 1989 paper. Our work was misapplied.

Air embolism

The skin discolouration described at the Letby trial does not match the findings in our 1989 paper. Our work was misapplied.

Dr Shoo Lee, 3 February 2025

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A screening immunoassay was never designed for forensic use. No confirmatory mass spectrometry was performed.

Insulin evidence

A screening immunoassay was never designed for forensic use. No confirmatory mass spectrometry was performed.

Shoo Lee Panel Report, 2025

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The chart shown to the jury is statistically meaningless. You cannot select the events because Letby was there, then use her presence as evidence of guilt.

The shift chart

The chart shown to the jury is statistically meaningless. You cannot select the events because Letby was there, then use her presence as evidence of guilt.

Prof. Richard Gill, Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Leiden

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A dislodged endotracheal tube in a 25-week infant is a routine clinical event, not evidence of wrongdoing.

Child K

A dislodged endotracheal tube in a 25-week infant is a routine clinical event, not evidence of wrongdoing.

Shoo Lee Panel Report, 2025

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I rise to raise what I believe is a potential miscarriage of justice of the most serious kind.

House of Commons — November 2024

I rise to raise what I believe is a potential miscarriage of justice of the most serious kind.

Sir David Davis MP

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In every case, the alleged physical act is inferred from outcome — never directly witnessed, never forensically documented.

The physical evidence

In every case, the alleged physical act is inferred from outcome — never directly witnessed, never forensically documented.

lucyletbyfacts.com, Evidence review

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In every case we reviewed, deterioration was explicable by natural causes or identifiable clinical error — not deliberate harm.

The unit

In every case we reviewed, deterioration was explicable by natural causes or identifiable clinical error — not deliberate harm.

Shoo Lee Panel Report, 2025

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If I pressed the matter further, my own position on the unit was at risk.

Thirlwall Inquiry — Dr Stephen Brearey

If I pressed the matter further, my own position on the unit was at risk.

Contemporaneous note, 23 September 2016

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Our review was not designed to be used as a reason not to contact the police.

Thirlwall Inquiry — RCPCH review authors

Our review was not designed to be used as a reason not to contact the police.

RCPCH 2016 service-review author, Thirlwall evidence

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