'My evidence might have changed killer nurse Lucy Letby's trial'
An expert says the jury could have reached a different outcome had he been called to give evidence in court.
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A defence witness in the trial of Lucy Letby has suggested the outcome could have been different if he had been called to give evidence.
Neonatologist Dr Michael Hall said he has wrestled "for some time" with the case and "did not consider that the jury had heard the whole truth".
Dr Hall was hired by Letby's defence as an expert witness but he wasn't called to testify at the former nurse's trial.
He told The Times he would have challenged some of the prosecution's assertions, adding: "I would have given different answers to those given by the prosecution's medical expert witnesses, and different interpretations for some of the cases.
"That's not to say that I know all the answers, or that I know that Lucy Letby is innocent. There were certainly some events which were difficult to explain."
He added that the evidence in his view was open to challenge.
Letby was convicted in August 2023 of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six others between June 2015 and June 2016 at the Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit.
Her trial at Manchester Crown Court ran for 10 months from October 2022 to August 2023, with a retrial ordered after a jury was unable to reach a verdict on one count of attempted murder of a baby girl.
The 34-year-old was found guilty last month of the attack on the newborn infant during a night shift in the Countess of Chester's neonatal unit in February 2016.
She was sentenced to 15 whole-life orders - making her only the fourth woman in British history to be told she would never be released from prison.
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Dr Hall told The Times he disagreed with claims concerning the health of some of the babies before their deaths, claiming he thought the prosecution's medical expert witnesses "overstated" the extent to which some of the babies were deemed to be "completely stable" before they collapsed.
He said evidence to back an argument some babies were killed by the injection of air was relatively weak, according to The Times.
The expert said he didn't know why he wasn't called. Express.co.uk has contacted the legal firm which represented Letby. The Times reports that the solicitors who commissioned Dr Hall's advice can't comment because of legal privilege.
Dr Hall said no one saw Letby do anything and there was little forensic evidence to support the accusations, adding that it appeared to him that not calling expert witnesses may have had "an important effect" on the outcome of the jury.
