Lucy Letby chief witness in bizarre 'turned on' rant at campaigner

Daily Mirror

15-06-2025

Chief expert witness Dr Dewi Evans has dismissed an attempt by a pro-Letby campaigner to challenge his evidence - by claiming his interest in the case was purely sexual
A supporter of killer nurse Lucy Letby's was motivated by a sexual attraction to "pretty young blonde females", an expert witness who was central to her conviction has claimed. Dr Dewi Evans, 75, the prosecution's chief expert and retired paediatrician, took aim at a statistician who had quizzed him in an attempt to pick holes in his testimony.
The expert - who has remained anonymous due to the nature of his work - attempted to cast doubt on the case against the evil baby killer on triedbystats.com website. But Dr Evans challenged theories cast by the campaigner by claiming that his interest in the case was purely sexual. He said: "You seem very intense, and it's not unusual for men to have the hots for pretty young blonde females.
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"A nursing uniform is a turn-on for some by all accounts. I would suggest you need to get out more, find yourself an available pretty young blonde female, with/without nursing credentials. But one who doesn't go to work intent on murdering her patients."
The pro-Letby campaigner has since attempted to justify his view the child serial killer - who was convicted of killing seven babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital by a jury - is innocent. He told the Mail on Sunday: "When I first heard about Letby's conviction, I had assumed she was guilty. I don't believe that any more. This has nothing to do with her appearance but everything to do with the trial transcripts I've since read.
"Dr Evans' evidence, in particular, is astounding. In several alleged incidents, it turned out Letby wasn't even on shift. On the stand, Evans spontaneously changed his medical opinion, abandoning five years of pretrial reports and producing new theories conveniently aligning with times he now knew Letby had been present.
"Since the trial, an overwhelming number of highly qualified medical experts have described Dr Evans' evidence as absurd theories. But the most absurd of all is the idea that any questioning of the verdict is motivated by Letby being a blonde nurse."
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A campaign advocating for the nurse's innocence that dubbed Letby's convictions "the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history" has had cold water poured upon it by countless experts and politicians. The speculation around Letby's conviction has been condemned by the families of the victims, who labelled those spreading what can only be categorised as rumours online as 'hurtful and distasteful.'
Evil Letby, 35, from Hereford, is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted at Manchester Crown Court of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others, with two attempts on one of her victims, between June 2015 and June 2016. Her whole life tariff means that she will never be eligible, and is expected to die behind bars.
She was convicted for attacking and killing infants by various means while a nurse on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital. One such method was injecting air into the bloodstream, which caused an air embolism that blocked the blood supply and led to sudden and unexpected collapses.
The baby murdering nurse lost two bids last year to challenge her convictions at the Court of Appeal – in May for seven murders and seven attempted murders, and in October for the attempted murder of a baby girl which she was convicted of by a different jury at a retrial.