The Latest on supporting victims of institutional and corporate misconduct & more

On Monday, a documentary Lucy Letby: Murder or Mistake aired on Channel 4. Much of it featured lead prosecution medical investigator and expert Dr Dewi Evans. On Tuesday, Dr Evans released a statement in response to the documentary. In this blog post I critique the statement.

Dr Dewi Evans, lead prosecution medical expert in the Lucy Letby case, has given me permission to share our extensive correspondence over the last year.

The CPS has never said why it did not consider the notes to be confessions, legally speaking. Why is this?

A spreadsheet of the details of the various lawyers involved in the Thirlwall Inquiry

The challenges facing neonatal care in our system are undeniably multifactorial - involving staffing, infrastructure, systemic planning, and cultural issues

The prosecution successfully argued that there was an underlying factor, and that their underlying factor was Lucy Letby. However, is it possible that there is evidence of non-malevolent factors that were instead to blame?

Lady Thirlwall has now given her ruling that the Inquiry when it commences in September will not be livestreamed

Is this a huge miscarriage of justice?

New site mephitis.co dedicated to supporting victims of institutional and corporate misconduct has been launched

Blog members who are interested in supporting Lucy may like to see the piece I posted on the forum this morning

Thanks to the blog member who has contacted me to ask if there is a plan to support Lucy on 25 April, the day of her leave to appeal hearing

Obstacles faced by those wishing to see trial transcripts fly in the face of the UK's principle of Open Justice

The spike in deaths at CoCH may have been related to the temporary closure of N Wales neonatal unit at Glan Clwyd in late 2014/early 2015

Comparing hospital (FOI), MBRRRACE, and ONS data raises more questions