Johnny Sheldon

This must be the only case where a new reason for reasonable doubt has appeared in the press almost every week since the trial. Hope the CCRC can keep up! Most disputed convictions generate repeated variations on one complaint. Here the challenges have attacked almost every aspect of the case: medical causation, air embolism, insulin testing, the roster chart, incident selection, hospital conditions, expert methodology, undisclosed concerns about a prosecution expert, door-swipe chronology, witness recollection, police framing and disclosure. The international neonatal panel found no medical evidence of deliberate harm; separate specialists challenged the insulin evidence; it emerged that a central insulin expert was under a GMC fitness-to-practise investigation while testifying; and the CPS Special Crime division later decided that none of eleven further proposed charges met the evidential test. And, not least, multiple upfront case gateway failures. And now we learn about adapting an interpretation to fit the data in one case where a change in data turned out to point away from the defendent. If this case were a work of fiction you couldn't even make it up. #LucyLetby