Interview With Legal Expert Anna Doherty On Lucy Letby

Anna Doherty, a former CPS prosecutor and founder of Spoken Injustice, brings a prosecution insider's perspective to the failings of the Letby trial. She argues that the trial process was fundamentally unfair in several respects: the selection and instruction of expert witnesses was procedurally improper, the defence was over-confident and under-prepared, and the Court of Appeal's treatment of Dr Dewi Evans as a de facto super-expert — effectively insulated from challenge by paragraph 187 of the judgment — created an unjust barrier to appeal. She raises concerns about the time pressure facing Letby's legal team and explains why the appeal process is structurally ill-suited to cases where the scientific consensus shifts after conviction. She also discusses the Dewi Evans conflict-of-interest questions and argues that no independent prosecutor reviewing the case file fresh would have proceeded to trial on the evidence available.