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My view of Letby remains that of all the possible explanations for the babies’ collapses and deaths, deliberate harm is the least likely. There are far more likely explanations, backed by better clinical and statistical evidence. Unless the police can produce the additional…

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👇 Thread on today's unanimous decision by the Supreme Court to quash the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, and the decision's potential resonance to the Letby case.

Part 24 of our Special Report into the Lucy Letby case is now available to download from the Eye website here: private-eye.co.uk/special-report… Part 25 by @drphilhammond is also available to read in the brand new issue of Private Eye which is out now.

Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal? PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested, bundled into a van and taken to the cells during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece…

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Some babies died avoidably at the Countess of Chester Hospital. The evidence that they died of accidental harm appears to be far stronger than the evidence that they died of deliberate harm. And yet the coroner didn’t spot either. Why not? My column in @PrivateEyeNews today.

List of CPS / Judicial Abuses of Process: 1.Failure to Call Examining Pathologists No forensic pathologists gave testimony despite post-mortems being conducted — unprecedented in a multi-homicide case.

I’ll be teaching people how to pleasure themselves in a safe and sustainable way at the Petworth Festival on July 31. If I’ve got time, we’ll fix the NHS as well. But mostly we’ll just laugh at the state of human decay. petworthfestival.ticketsolve.com/share/11736633…

“It should be a matter of national shame that we now spend more on maternity litigation than the total cost of running maternity services.” theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

Important point. Unions are at best hit or miss. Too often, their representatives are about as useful as a chocolate teapot. I’ve helped numerous people push back against harmful workplace dynamics, only to find that the union advice they received was misguided at best,…

I have just complained to the Information Commissioner about Cheshire Constabulary's refusal to give me details of the press conference they held during the Letby trial, and their subsequent rejection of an FoI request and a review request.

498 recorded wrongful convictions since 1970. 2,538 total years lost (average 5.1 years). And that doesn't include those who remain wrongly convicted nor those who were never exonerated. If you think this could not happen to you, think again. evidencebasedjustice.exeter.ac.uk/miscarriages-o…

I was genuinely shocked when LJ Thirlwall chose to ignore a group of highly respected professionals last year after a letter that @PeterElston1 and I wrote to her last year co-signed by many eminent statisticians, scientists and doctors. The letter we wrote was unprecedented in…

Interesting document released today by Cheshire police, in response to a FOI request by @TomEvans80, into the force's business relationship with Media Factory Limited, a company owned by journalist and Daily Mail podcast co-host Caroline Cheetham. Cheetham reported extensively…

At the start of the trial, on Day 3, the defence made a motion to call three of their expert witnesses. The prosecution objected because they wanted Letby to personally testify first, in part because Dr Hall specifically identified problems in the prosecution narrative but Letby…

It’s ugly to have to say it, but it appears Thirlwall Inquiry is effectively subsidising the lawyers’ no-win-no-fee arrangement with the parents. In the terms of the Inquiry, and the focus that Thirlwall herself has put on the parents, she has given them a forum and agenda to…

Excellent article @Mephitisblog Much more will eventually come out by diary experts in due course. One of the most disturbing patterns emerging in carer MoJ cases is the reckless misinterpretation of diary entries. And why wouldn’t that happen? In this legal system,…

Lucy's handwritten notes ("I'm evil I did this", etc) condemned her. They should not have been admissible. The prosecution told jurors the notes should be "taken as" a confession. But they had not been admitted as a confession, legally speaking. mephitis.co/post/lucy-letb…

This is my favourite bit. Dr Anna Milan explaining why samples get sent to Guildford (neither Baby F nor L's were). She says they get sent "in forensic cases"! Then swiftly gets interrupted by prosecuting barrister Philip Astbury who realises she's messed up. What a joke. Except…

So @BMAResidents and @wesstreeting are meeting today. Both have said their current positions are non-negotiable. I hope that gives them room to negotiate.