The problem with your above claims is that
Dewi Evans had no idea which nurses worked when. He could not know that any of the deaths which he termed 'not suspicious' were on days Letby didn't work.
So actually, that looks bad for Letby's defense, imo. Those determinations were made without knowing which nurses worked on which shifts, and it just coincidentally happened that the suspicious incidents all happened when Letby was on duty?
google:
Dewi Evans did not know anything about the nurses’ schedules (or duty rosters/shift patterns) when he was initially analysing the babies’ deaths and collapses.Evans, a retired consultant paediatrician, was approached by Cheshire Police (via the National Crime Agency) in May 2017 to review the clinical notes of over 30 babies who had died or collapsed at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit between January 2015 and July 2016. He has repeatedly stated that his medical analysis was conducted blindly with respect to staffing:
- He explicitly instructed police: “I told Cheshire Police not to tell me if they suspected anyone of being responsible for criminality. In other words, I wanted to investigate the cause of the deaths of these babies. I was not there to investigate the crime.”
- “At that time I was unaware of the name Lucy Letby or anyone else.”
- “I approached it in a very clinical way. I only had access to the notes.” (The notes were electronic copies provided by the hospital via police; he had no other data.)
He reviewed each case individually on the medical evidence alone, identifying 15 babies whose collapses he could not explain naturally and later attributing some to air embolism, excessive milk/air injection, trauma, or (in 2018) insulin poisoning. Only after sending his reports did he advise police: “they needed to look at the duty rosters for each of the events, to see which nurses and which doctors had been on duty at the times when the babies were harmed.” It was the police who then cross-referenced the suspicious incidents against the rosters and identified Letby as the common factor. Evans himself only learned her identity (and the shift details) later, once the roster checks had been done. He has confirmed that each medical case stood alone on the clinical notes and did not depend on staffing information. (Note: Evans later received Letby’s shift data for statistical calculations during the Thirlwall Inquiry or post-trial commentary, but this was not part of his original medical analysis of the causes of death/collapse, which formed the core of his expert evidence at trial.)This process was designed to keep his medical opinions independent of any suspect or roster information. While critics have questioned how the police initially selected the 30+ cases (knowing Letby was often present), the evidence shows Evans himself had no knowledge of or access to nurses’ schedules during his core analysis.
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