Former cabinet minister David Davis believes it’s ‘highly likely’ Lucy Letby is innocent

Cabinet minister David Davis believes convicted baby killer Lucy Letby is innocentSource: Good morning Britain

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00:00Well, that's where the first challenge from the Royal Statistical Society experts and so on comes in.

00:04They said, no, no, no, no, this is a common misapprehension of these things.

00:09Firstly, you're not taking on board all of the extra deaths.

00:12Just you've picked out half that happened to fit with Lucy Letby's shift schedule.

00:18That's the first thing.

00:19Because there were deaths when she wasn't on duty, which are not part of that.

00:23There were.

00:23About half the deaths, yeah, were when she was not on duty.

00:26So that's the first problem.

00:28So some really big deal statisticians, including one this weekend, Professor John Quigley,

00:36said this is not the way you do this.

00:38This is misleading.

00:40So that's point one.

00:41Point two was the expert evidence on how they died.

00:47Were these children murdered?

00:48Now, bear in mind, six out of seven of the children they picked had had a post-mortem.

00:54And the post-mortem had said natural causes, in essence.

00:58I had other very senior doctors, say, neonatal doctors, specialists, current, working today,

01:07get in touch.

01:07One of them sent me an alternative diagnosis for every single death.

01:11Now, the point about this, and you go through everything and everything you've mentioned,

01:16including, and I went through all the post-it notes and so on, which had opposite things,

01:21almost in the same series of post-it notes.

01:24Oh, I'm evil.

01:25And at the end of the same post-it note series, I've done nothing wrong.

01:30Why is this happening to me?

01:31David Davis, I'll put it to you again, that hearing evidence outside of a courtroom

01:39is not the same as evidence that is interrogated in a courtroom.

01:44Lucy Letby's defence had an opportunity to call the people who are now contacting you.

01:51And it's their responsibility, obviously, to put all of that in front of the jury.

01:55The other way around, some of them actually did contact the defence, I'm told.

02:02Now, I don't know what the conversation was between those, because I've written to the

02:05defence lawyer, I haven't yet had a response, I know that will.

02:10But the point here is, let's take your point about in court.