Hypothesis: The death of Baby A may be attributable to a medical error in the NeoNatal Unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital
Some weeks ago I described the complexities relating to the prosecution(s) and convictions(s) of Lucy Letby as a "complex matrix of competing hypotheses". See A complex spectrum of competing hypotheses In this post I want briefly to set out my hypothesis regarding the causation of the death of Baby A and the collapse of Baby B. The hyptheses adopted by the prosecution was that Lucy Letby had murdered Baby A and had attempted to murder Baby B. The jury (wrongly in my view) accepted that the prosecution's hypotheses were proven. Lucy Letby was (wrongly) convicted of the (supposed) murder of Baby A and Lucy Letby was also (wrongly) convicted of the (supposed) attempted murder of Baby B. The hypotheses set out by the International Expert Panel were that there had been no murder of attempted murder. My hypothesis is slightly different. It is close to the hypothesis implicitly put forward by the International Expert Panel but specifically includes an element to the eff...