Babies the former nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering were in fact the victims of 'bad medical care' or deteriorated as a result of natural causes, an expert panel has concluded.
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Outlining what the senior Conservative MP David Davis described as 'one of worst injustices of recent times', the international team told a press conference there was no medical evidence to support claims of deliberate harm. The panel, chaired by Dr Shoo Lee, examined the cases of 17 babies whom Letby was charged with murdering or harming at the Countess of Chester hospital in north-west England. Lee, an emeritus professor at the University of Toronto, said the 14 experts had found 'so many problems with the medical care' of the babies and nothing to support the claim they were attacked. 'In summary, ladies and gentlemen, we did not find any murders,' he told a press conference in London on Tuesday
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