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Guy Rowland
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Sep 2 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Lucy Letby's hospital KNEW the likely causes of their elevated death rate at the time she was removed.

Thirlwall today released a full version of a powerpoint produced in summer 2016.

It painted a stark picture of life and death on the unit. 🧵 (1/10)

thirlwall.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/upl…Image During the last 6 months of 2015 (when the allegations against Lucy started), there was above average

Admissions (5/6 mths)
Care days (6/6 mths)

(2/10)
Aug 28 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
I worked as BBC staff for 15 years. I loved the place and I still instinctively feel protective of it.

So the Lucy Letby Panorama shambles genuinely makes me sad.

How did it come to this? 🧵 (1/10)

(archive link - archive.is/rdRLg)

inews.co.uk/news/media/bbc… Panorama was the BBC's flagship current affairs programme. But in 2006, the editor quit after mass job cuts in the department.

The home of investigative journalism became a shadow of its former self. (2/10)

theguardian.com/media/2006/mar…
Aug 16 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Lucy Letby: Who To Believe?

Not Panorama, clearly.

Why the changes made by the BBC so far are not remotely sufficient. 🧵(1/7)

telegraph.co.uk/gift/1837d0709… Here's what they have changed at the time of posting. From suggesting Lucy extubated tubes on 40% of all shifts (or something), they jumped to saying in fact only FOUR tubes in total were extubated in 2015. (2/7)

Aug 11 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Ahead of tonight’s BBC Panorama, a moment to consider the foundations upon which the case was built.

In 2015-2016, the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital experienced a higher-than-normal deathrate.

Doctors began to notice nurse Lucy Letby was often there. 🧵1/11 Image Their whispers grew louder, but Lucy was well-liked and respected, was never seen doing anything suspicious, and there was no medical evidence against her.

It took a year for the doctors to raise it with senior management. (2/11) Image
Aug 10 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
NEW PAPER: In the Lucy Letby case “the Police and CPS investigative process was predicated on unsuitable expert advice, junk science and fake statistics”.

The 18 signatories include a regional director of public health and a deputy medical director of NHS England. 🧵 (1/7) Image John Ashton CBE was awarded the Crown Prince medal for medical excellence, and Mike Bewick was the principal investigator into mortality concerns at Leeds Teaching Hospital’s paediatric cardiac surgery unit. (2/7)
Aug 8 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
10 years after Lucy Letby worked at the Countess of Chester, the hospital has failed a CQC report.

This is partly due to "critical gaps" in sepsis treatment.

At least 4 babies whom Lucy was accused of harming had sepsis. 🧵(1/8)

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a… In February 25, an international panel who examined the full medical records of every child found NO EVIDENCE of any deliberate harm. Instead they found sick babies and bad medical care.

In 4 cases this involved sepsis, with 2 more possible. (2/8)

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/f…
Aug 6 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
The unlikely but true story of how Lucy Letby won her workplace grievance yet lost a criminal trial for murder.

🧵 (1/15) Image A few months after being removed from the neonatal unit, Lucy instigated a grievance against the hospital.

After a thorough investigation, no evidence was found – or even presented - against her.

Her grievance was upheld. (2/15)

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Aug 2 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
The story behind this photo of Lucy Letby is haunting.

The Sunday Times say it was taken in November 2020 at the wedding of her childhood friend Dawn.

Within days, Lucy would be arrested for a third time and held in custody.

She has never been out since. (1/8) Image The police's actions during that 3rd arrest were so dramatic and loud it gave Lucy PTSD.

If footage exists, the police have never released it.

Lucy was on medication throughout her trial for anxiety, depression and an inability to sleep. (2/8)
Jul 7 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Kudos to The Observer for The Salt Path expose.

Rigour may be dull, but it is essential.

My own TwitterX bubble is Lucy Letby. Outside this, it must be very hard to make sense of claim and counter-claim.

A short thread on rigour in this case. (1/13)

observer.co.uk/news/national/… The British courtroom is theatre.

2 sides present opposing stories – which does a jury find more believable? They can only base their decision on what the judge allows to be heard and the relative skill of the 2 storytellers.

There is no independent reporting allowed. (2/13)
Jun 12 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
The disaster of the Lucy Letby trial was always hiding in plain sight.

The chief witness, Dewi Evans, under oath, said "I call myself an independent medical witness, not an expert".

Yet even though even he himself agrees he was not an expert, he was treated as one. (1/8) What about his claim to be an "independent" medical witness?

Judge Goss had been contacted during the trial by another judge in a family law case. He warned that his report was "worthless" and he "makes no effort to provide a balanced opinion". (2/8)

theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/d…
Apr 21 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Some who are invested in Lucy Letby's guilt are trying to rewrite history to say there was nothing wrong with the staffing and conditions on her unit in 2015-2016.

Here is what one doctor on the unit wrote in December 2015. (1/6) Image An RCPCH report also found staffing numbers "inadequate", "a pattern of insufficient senior cover" and "there should have been a greater level of consultant presence on the ward". (2/6)

web.archive.org/web/2023091200…
Apr 2 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Lucy Letby's lawyer, Mark McDonald will submit new reports in person to the Criminal Cases Review Commission tomorrow. (1/9) Image One will be a Joint Expert Witness report on Babies F and L, the insulin cases.

The 86 page report has been compiled by seven of the world's leading experts in immunoassays, insulin and C-peptide testing, paediatric endocrinology and hyperinsulinism. (2/9)