A collation of experts and professionals in related fields to those represented in Lucy Letby's trial, who have publicly voiced concerns over the verdict ...
Medical ...
Michelle Worden
Michelle Worden is a former advanced neonatal nurse practitioner (ANNP) at the Countess of Chester Hospital who has spoken out about long-standing systemic failings, understaffing, and the deskilling of the nursing unit years before Lucy Letby’s crimes. Worden worked at the hospital until 2007, when she was made redundant amid restructuring. She stated that senior, qualified nurses leaving the unit were increasingly replaced by junior or nursery nurses and agency staff, calling the shift an "accident waiting to happen". After raising concerns with management and local media prior to Lucy Letby's arrest, she has continued to offer commentary and analysis on the case, which includes looking at capacity issues, infrastructure problems, and the unit operating out of its depth, as well as discussing broader issues such as the findings of both the trial and consequent public inquiry. This has included commentary and interviews across online and legacy media.
Legal ...
Lord Sumption
Lord Sumption is a British author, medieval historian, barrister and former senior judge who sat on the Supreme Court between 2012 and 2018 as well as the Hong Kong Court of Final Apppeal between 2019 and 2024. Sumption is well known for his role as a barrister in many high profile legal cases and as an advocate for retaining judicial independence and ethics. Sumption’s interest in Lucy Letby’s possible unsafe verdict was made clear in a Times Op Ed which question the quality of evidence presented at trial.
Adam King
Adam King has focussed his practice on serious and complex jury trials, across the whole range of criminal work - including business crime, sexual offences, violence and terrorism. King is often instructed on a private basis to defend doctors and healthcare professionals, police officers and other professionals and by CPS Special Casework, often as leading counsel. He also occasionally writes for Unherd on legal topics including his doubts about Lucy Letby’s conviction.
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Amel Alghrani
Professor Alghrani is a Visiting Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and a full-time Professor of Law at the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool. Her research expertise lies in health law, with a particular focus on the regulation of reproduction and assisted reproduction, including complex issues such as abortion, sterilisation, pregnancy policing, and fertility treatment regulation. Amel also specialises in the intersection of criminal and medical law, investigating the growing use of criminal law to govern healthcare ethics and practices. Amel’s work in these fields has led to high-impact, internationally recognised publications, which have been cited by the UK Supreme Court and featured prominently in major media outlets. In the case of Lucy Letby, Alghrani focuses on the issues around expert evidence and how the myopic perspective of police and prosecution informs selection of expert witnesses.
The Jolly Contrarian (JC)
The Jolly Contrarian is the online pseudonym for Olly Buxton who has 30 years experience as a commercial lawyer, working for law firms “big and small”, as well as for a number investment banks. Although not a criminal lawyer and with “no particular axe to grind”, JC has found himself asking the same pertinent questions surrounding the safety of the verdict as many other credentialed experts. With excellent academic level scrutiny, JC has created a website of substantial information which I have linked both here and on the further reading section of this website.
Statistical ...
Professor Richard Gill
Professor Richard Gill, a Dutch statistical expert and professor emeritus at Leiden University, has publicly argued that convicted British nurse Lucy Letby was a victim of a miscarriage of justice. Gill draws direct parallels between Letby and the wrongful conviction of Dutch paediatric nurse Lucia de Berk, whom Gill helped exonerate in 2010 after being falsely convicted based on flawed statistical data. Gill has also set up Science for justice – NL, which aims to “get a closer understanding of the truth about the world around us through the use of scientific methodology and the powers of reason” (also see further reading).
Professor Jane Hutton
Professor Jane Hutton is an interdisciplinary statistician, with special interests in survival analysis, meta-analysis and non-random data. Her collaborations in health and medicine began in 1983 and her methodological research largely focuses on developing models to answer questions raised by health care colleagues, and patients. Hutton has raised significant concerns regarding the statistical evidence and data analysis used in Lucy Letby’s trial and has appeared in several documentaries both online and on legacy broadcast channels, notably the most recent release on Channel 5.
Peter Elston
Peter Elston is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and has covered the Lucy Letby case since being one of "the first to assert publicly that Lucy Letby was likely the victim of a miscarriage of justice". Elston has created extensive content including articles for a variety of publications and you can find links to his video and podcasat channels on the content creator page.