Peter Hayes
@peternhayes
Lucy Letby should not have been convicted
I’m presenting ‘Lucy Letby and the Revival of the Witch Hunt’ at the University of Sunderland on Thursday 13 Feb. The paper explains how the same pattern of circumstantial evidence used to convict witches was used against Ms Letby. open.substack.com/pub/peterhayes…
After Jeremy Hunt spoke up for Lucy Letby, I wrote (again) to my MP asking for her to make public her opinion on the affair. If you live in the UK, please write to your constituency MP too, and encourage them to do their job by saying where they stand on the matter.

We now have three MPs (David Davis, Jeremy Hunt, Nigel Farage) speaking up about Lucy Letby. But we need to hear from all of them. Ms Letby’s case raises issues of great public importance, so MPs of all political persuasions have a duty to make their views known.

The arrest of ex-managers in the Lucy Letby affair may tempt MPs to maintain their timid silence so as ‘not to interfere with the judicial process’. In fact, these absurd arrests call for the opposite reaction: MPs must speak out to save our justice system from public contempt.
‘Lucy Letby and the Power of the Powerless’. Thank you to the Nineteen Nurses Group, who invited me to present this paper to their meeting in Hereford, 7 June 2025. peterhayes572867.substack.com/p/lucy-letby-a…
The PR campaign against Lucy Letby explains how it helped to shift the focus of media attention away from the truth.
One PR company was even boasting prior to the start of the Thirlwall Inquiry how they had arranged interviews to manipulate and support the prosecution narrative. linkedin.com/pulse/pr-matte…
The PCC expenditure lists do indeed seem to show Operation Hummingbird police paid Ms Cheetham’s ‘Media Factory’ 8k during the trial of Lucy Letby, After the trial, they also appear to have spent several thousand pounds presenting themselves with awards.

Thank you for your support. However - I do want to be clear: I’m not speaking out on behalf of Lucy Letby as an individual. I have no connection to her beyond what I would to any other neonatal nurse I’ve never met - or any person imprisoned for multiple murders they did not…
If this interview with parents babies L & M has the correct date (2/08/23), this is wrong. Shows media were biased. Reporter: “How do you feel that before your boys were ATTACKED” “[Letby] gets moved onto day shift and she ATTACKS your boys” The jury was still deliberating.
That's not the only payment Cheshire cops made to Caroline Cheetham. PCC documents show on 12 Nov 2022 the force paid £4,100 to her company The Media Factory Ltd - screen shot below. The Mail's podcast, which she co-hosted, started a month earlier.
MPs claim they can't fulfil their duty to check abuse of power in the Lucy Letby case on the grounds of "separation of powers". Yet the CPS, police and media are found to be ever more closely mixed together in perpetrating the abuse of process that led to her wrongful conviction
The transactional relationship is damning. We don’t know exactly what the £4k was for (“publicity” would be the budget code) but this made the supposed impartial podcast host a CLIENT of Cheshire Police and *Operation Hummingbird*, which raises huge bias/prejudice issues. #Letby
The Media Factory Ltd is owned by Caroline Broster (also known as Caroline Cheetham) who hosted The Daily Mail Lucy Letby Trial Podcast w/ Liz Hull? Is this correct? Why did Cheshire police pay her company almost £4k in “publicity?” *during* the trial? #Letby @LucyLetbyTrials
My goodness! More evidence of a Police/CPS/judiciary/media complex in the Lucy Letby case. The police seem to have held an embargoed press conference on 30 June 2023 before any verdicts were delivered. The photographer's date is corroborated by police records of hiring the Hall.
Yes, it can. Cheshire Police forked out £2K to hire Manchester Hall for Operation Hummingbird 30/06/2023. cheshire-pcc.gov.uk/SysSiteAssets/…
Thank you for this excellent question. Of course this case has been discussed extensively in the world of neonatal medicine. Many of my Neonatal consultant and nurse colleagues contacted me even during the trial to ask what was going on — I’m known within my network for having…
Lord Sumption’s article links the appalling miscarriage of justice suffered by Lucy Letby to serious defects in the British justice system. So I have written (again) to my MP asking her to take up the matter. Please do the same.

In 2023-24, censorship prevented the media from publishing expert commentary on Lucy Letby, but allowed it to publish propaganda. If further charge are made against Ms Letby (or managers) similar censorship will be unjust and will debase the public space. youtube.com/watch?v=1OXx9a…
It is 'the banality of evil'. Hannah Arendt's term was often thrown at Lucy Letby. Now that it is obvious Ms Letby is innocent, everyone who so glibly condemned her should reflect on what Arendt meant (or simply listen to their conscience) and say something to make amends.
Ironic that a case once thought to have uncovered unspeakable evil is doing so in a way that was never expected. All those medical/hospital/police/legal people who would rather see an innocent young woman stay in prison for life, than accept the truth. That is pure evil.
Lucy Letby's case may not be referred back to the Court of Appeal for years. But as long as we live in a democracy there is no need, in the interim, to publicly maintain the falsehood that she is guilty.
I missed the bit where the CCRC have referred her case to the CoA who have subsequently quashed the convictions. When did that happen?