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A meticulous analysis of a careless prosecution.
(This review is based on a paid-for copy of the Kindle edition.)
On the day that Lucy Letby was first convicted, the author had only a passing interest in the case, which seemed to be dreadful beyond belief. But as the day wore on, the frenzied and sensational reporting began to ring an alarm bell or two, so he started listening to and closely watching news broadcasts and online reports, waiting for someone to describe, or at least summarise, the evidence. He eventually began to wonder if there WAS any evidence, and thus began a three year investigation which led to his reading millions of words of often complex medical information, and interviewing hundreds of genuine experts, whereas the police investigation and prosecution employed only a handful of experts, who were notable for the fact that the better they understood the weight of what they were saying, the less they found it prudent to say in public or in court and this had the effect of surrendering the witness box to one of the least reliable “expert” witnesses in legal history for more than 90% of the trial.
The author’s journey was from examining what seemed to be one of the worst serial killing cases in British history, via a belief that the only crimes actually committed might be those of negligence and omission, to a belief that there were no crimes committed at the Countess of Chester Hospital at all. The text of this book includes something of significance on every page and this means that there are hundreds of them. It’s an awesome piece of work but the author does lack one thing: knowledge of issues and legalities around bullying, stalking and harassment (especially of females) and how those laws were all being tightened in England and Wales in the same years that the Letby saga was unfolding. Armed with some knowledge of these issues it is possible to see, amongst all the evidence which Mr Morris presents with so much care and skill, that which Lucy Letby’s principal accusers created for themselves and which could have proved them guilty of criminal harassment and not just breach of codes of conduct and professional slander.
And having created that “evidence” for the purpose of both bullying Ms Letby into abandoning the career that she loved and her managers into wanting her gone, they reacted to the “grievance” panel finding in favour of Ms Letby by “doubling down” that is, they made a determined effort to get the police to commence a murder investigation, to which they handed certain cherry-picked and manipulated “evidence” including the document variously known as the “Roster Chart” and the “Shift Chart”, which was the most influential evidence in the prosecution.
If you use concocted evidence to make someone leave her job, or get her sacked, that’s harassment and if there are two of you it’s conspiracy to harass. But when you hand that concoction to the police to use in an investigation which you campaigned for and which you have been (most improperly) allowed to advise despite being the complainants and this causes your intended victim to be wrongly convicted of multiple murders and attempted murders, that’s perjury and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Sentencing guidelines say that the penalty for perjury must be in proportion to any penalties that were imposed on the victim of your perjury. Lucy Letby was given FIFTEEN whole life prison orders.
It is the evolution of the Roster Chart originally created with the help (under protest) of hospital managers desperate to stop Lucy’s accusers making completely baseless claims by helping them to stick to the facts, into the scarcely recognisable “Shift Chart” presented at Ms Letby’s trial, which proves an intent to bully and harass Ms Letby. And in the process of making it look as if she was, uniquely, always on duty when “murders” were done, by removing others (including ALL doctors) from the chart completely, they managed to deceive not only the court into thinking that Mr Letby was often on duty and nobody else was present at the relevant times, they convinced themselves of this fact too and they changed their recollections of events to fit! A nurse being alone in an intensive care unit for premature babies with several patients requiring one to one care would not have been suspicious: it would have been an EMERGENCY and had it ever happened there would be records of an immediate investigation. There are none: it never happened that way.
The references that Amazon forbids:
The Ministry of Justice documents which give an understanding of how the law, and policies around investigation and support for stalking were changing at the time of the Lucy Letby saga, are on this link:
This was the culmination of a process begun by David Blunket; it all started to actually happen while Theresa May was Home Secretary.
To read a short, but enlightening document, it is necessary for the reader to visit the “evidence” page of the Thirwell Inquiry websites and search for:
“Pages 1-3 of notes of an interview of Ian Harvey conducted by Dr Chris Green”
This is document INQ0003156 – dated 07/11/2016 but you have to search for the description not the document number; perhaps to stop bots trawling for data to feed the dreaded AIs! Click on the link with the right number, though, if you are presented with a choice of several.
Dr Chris Green, who conducted the grievance investigation on behalf of the grievance panel, was already concerned about the Roster Chart (known by several names as it evolved) precisely because it was evolving in a way which made it more and more focused on and lethal to Ms Letby, whose grievance he was investigating. What he wants to check with Dr Ian Harvey, was whether or not the Roster Chart as it once was, now names only nurses and no doctors whatsoever. And he’s trying to get Dr Harvey to see for himself how legally dangerous it is for the whole hospital if Ms Letby does file a formal complaint of workplace bullying. (If she had got her complaint in before she was accused of murder, that chart would have proved that she was being targeted for harassment by its creators and the hospital would have had to sack them and compensate her. The hospital’s legal advisors actually said that Lucy Letby suing for constructive dismissal and winning compensation was actually the BEST outcome they could expect! A criminal harassment case would be worse, and her accusers had just created proof of that.)
Beyond Reasonable Doubt by Christopher Morris is published by Cinto Press (Bath Publishing Ltd) as of the 9th of July 2026.
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