Was There Ever A Crime? The Trials of Lucy Letby with John Sweeney

Dec 20 2024 21 ep. 35 mins 883
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John Sweeney and Edward Abel Smith investigate the conviction of former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby and ask if she is innocent, in fact, was there ever a crime? Please support this independent project on Crowdfunded - https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/lucy-letby-was-there-ever-a-crime Contact - [email protected]

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Episode 7: Unreliable Witness?

Dec 20 2024 42 mins  
Unreliable Witness? As questions rise about the credibility of the Crown’s star expert witness, Dr Dewi Evans, in this episode co-hosts John Sweeney and Edward Abel Smith go back in time to a 34-year-old scandal when a boy suffering a treatable disease died wholly unnecessarily in his hospital. The evidence pointed to GPs being negligent and forging medical notes. Dr Evans stands

Episode 6: The Framing of Lucy Letby

Dec 05 2024 53 mins  
This is Episond 6: The framing of Lucy Letby, the last episode in our series. In this episode hosts John Sweeney and Edward Abel Smith tell the story of how neonatal consultant Dr B accidentally killed a baby at the Countess of Chester Hospital and how the jury never knew. Former NHS doctor Phil Hammond then sets out why he believes that a horrible hospital is a far better explana

Episode 5: Bad Science

Nov 28 2024 41 mins  
In Episode 5, Bad Science, we interview statistician John O’Quigley and neonatologist Colin Morley who have great doubts about the science behind the convictions against Lucy Letby. The two professors back up their logic with their own research papers - unlike the Crown’s star expert witness, Dr Dewi Evans. This is an independently funded project, if you want to support the pod

Episode 4: Star Witness

Nov 18 2024 37 mins  
In this episode Dr Dewi Evans gives his last interview on his conviction that Lucy Letby is a murderer, his view that critics, especially statisticians, are wrong and are often senior males who see Letby as a damsel in distress. We will be dealing with the issues raised by Dr Evans in the next episode. John Sweeney and Ed Abel Smith also discover that the one of the four consultan

Episode 3: Enter Sherlock Holmes. Not.

Nov 11 2024 36 mins  
In this episode hosts John Sweeney and Ed Abel Smith ask critical questions of the Cheshire Police investigation into the state of the neonatal clinic at the Countess of Chester Hospital: why did the coppers plump for the conclusion of a serial killer at large? Why did they hire, then fire a professor of statistics and not tell the defence? And did the police understand the complex

Episode 2: The Deluded

Oct 31 2024 30 mins  
In episode 2 - After a spike in deaths in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015, hospital bosses called in a team of independent expert doctors to find the root cause. Their report was damning, criticising environment, staffing and the consultants doing two scheduled ward rounds a week - the standard is two a day. The consultants pointed to a killer nurse on

Episode 1: A Hospital Full of Shit

Oct 23 2024 32 mins  
Lucy Letby is the most prolific serial killer of our time. She is convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to harm many others. But there are serious questions about not only whether she is a killer at all, but whether there was ever a crime. In episode one, John Sweeney and Edward Abel Smith discover that all is not as it seems at the Countess of Chester Hospital, the place

TRAILER: 'Was There Ever A Crime? The Trials of Lucy Letby' with John Sweeney

Sep 12 2024 2 mins  
New podcast announcement. Welcome to our new podcast series 'Was There Ever A Crime: The Trials of Lucy Letby'. Please help us fund this important journalistic project, go to our Crowdfunder here - https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/lucy-letby-was-there-ever-a-crime Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Lucy Letby is Britain's worst female serial killer in modern t

3. One lump or two?

Sep 12 2024 32 mins  
John Sweeney has been keeping track of the people caught up in Vladimir Putin's war crimes for over 20 years. This week, he remembers some of the people silenced for speaking out - and why their deaths were 'almost certainly' at the hands of the Kremlin. Taking On Putin is funded by you - the listener. You can support the podcast on Crowdfunder. Follow John on Twitter - @johnsweene

2. The Poisonings Begin

Sep 12 2024 25 mins  
John Sweeney has been tracking the evidence of Vladimir Putin's war crimes for over two decades. Now, on the ground in Kyiv, the old school reporter is sharing the truth. In this week's episode, John exposes the long list of Putin's enemies who've wound up dead - and the early life of the man behind the killing machine. Taking On Putin is funded by you - the listener. You can suppo