• Was There Ever A Crime? The Trials of Lucy Letby with John Sweeney

  • By: John Sweeney
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Was There Ever A Crime? The Trials of Lucy Letby with John Sweeney

By: John Sweeney
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  • Lucy Letby is Britain’s worst female serial killer in modern times. Or is she? Join John Sweeney and Edward Abel Smith as they reassess the safety of Letby's convictions. On the day she was first convicted, veteran journalist John Sweeney tweeted: “Lucy Letby may well be the victim of a miscarriage of justice, that the Crown has taken a cluster of accidental and natural deaths and pointed the finger at Letby. There is no compelling evidence of a single murder. The law, sometimes, gets it wrong. Follow John on Twitter - @johnsweeneyroar / @edwardabelsmith Please support this independent journalism on our Crowdfunder page - https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/lucy-letby-was-there-ever-a-crime
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  • Episode 4: Star Witness
    Nov 18 2024

    In this episode Dr Dewi Evans gives his last interview on his conviction that Lucy Letby is a murderer, his view that critics, especially statisticians, are wrong and are often senior males who see Letby as a damsel in distress. We will be dealing with the issues raised by Dr Evans in the next episode.

    John Sweeney and Ed Abel Smith also discover that the one of the four consultants who accused Lucy Letby led, by improper care, to the death of a baby. And that is something the jurors who convicted Lucy Letby never knew.

    This is a fully independent podcast, please consider helping us with our funding for production, go to our Crowdunder page for more information.

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    37 mins
  • Episode 3: Enter Sherlock Holmes. Not.
    Nov 11 2024

    In this episode hosts John Sweeney and Ed Abel Smith ask critical questions of the Cheshire Police investigation into the state of the neonatal clinic at the Countess of Chester Hospital: why did the coppers plump for the conclusion of a serial killer at large? Why did they hire, then fire a professor of statistics and not tell the defence? And did the police understand the complex medical reality, that the unit was looking after very sick premature babies, some of which had every chance of dying naturally?

    This is an independent podcast production, to support our work please visit our Crowdfunder

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    37 mins
  • Episode 2: The Deluded
    Oct 31 2024

    In episode 2 - After a spike in deaths in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015, hospital bosses called in a team of independent expert doctors to find the root cause. Their report was damning, criticising environment, staffing and the consultants doing two scheduled ward rounds a week - the standard is two a day. The consultants pointed to a killer nurse on the loose. But did they have skin in the game?

    This podcast is a self funded independent production. To support our journalism please donate via our Crowdfunder - https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/lucy-letby-was-there-ever-a-crime

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Brilliant

John Sweeney is simply brilliant - but it should have to be, if only people had listened to him and others warning for years.

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An excellent listen

Just couldn't make this up... Some of the moments in this podcast are insane.

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