Interview With Michele Worden More Lucy Letby Insight

Michele Worden, an advanced neonatal nurse practitioner who worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital, provides insider testimony about conditions on the unit. She describes sewage problems that affected the neonatal ward, an obstetrics department that was chronically understaffed and contributed to avoidable complications, and a pattern of consultant culture that made challenge impossible. She argues that Dr Evans was thoroughly discredited in the medical community long before the trial concluded, and that Dr Bohin's peer review was so superficial as to be meaningless — she rubber-stamped Evans's conclusions without independent clinical analysis. She is particularly critical of the way parents' testimony was used at trial, arguing that grieving parents were encouraged to give evidence in ways that exploited their understandable need for answers, turning natural parental grief into weaponised prosecution material.