That article doesn't say that Dr Evans used the same information, the summary provided to the coroner, to draw his conclusions. It says he used baby O's medical notes. Nowhere does it say the doctors didn't document the insertion of the cannula in baby O's medical notes.
The point is, that was at the point of baby O's third and final resuscitation effort that afternoon. There was no natural explanation for those collapses necessitating resuscitation.
He was thriving that morning on his third day of life, when Letby came back from holiday, and then his stomach blew up with air after doctors had just examined him and noted he had no problems. Dr Bohin noticed Letby had falsified her retrospective nursing notes to say he'd been changed from Optiflow to CPAP, which would have justified air in his gut, when in actual fact he wasn't on breathing support. He kept collapsing every time and only when she was left alone with him.
The whole issue of the cannula causing a bleed was discounted by Prof Marnerides at trial. The expert pathologist knew about it, the defence knew about it, the new defence experts knew about it - from the baby's medical notes.
SD is a disgruntled former employee of the coroner's office who was not medically trained and would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had she not resigned.
Hey, don't let facts get in the way of a good story!
I wouldnt be surprised if Letbys PR team have been sitting on this one a while, waiting for the best time to drop another "bombshell" it's been fairly quiet for a few days after all..
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