Interview With Tom Hayes On Lucy Letby And Libor

Tom Hayes, the LIBOR trader whose conviction was eventually quashed by the UK Supreme Court after years of imprisonment, speaks about the parallels between his experience and Lucy Letby's. He explains how his confession was extracted under duress during complex legal proceedings and how it was later used against him despite being unreliable. Hayes is critical of the expert witness industry, arguing that paid experts are selected and briefed precisely to reach particular conclusions, and that courts lack the means to assess whether competing expert claims are genuinely contested within the relevant scientific community. He proposes court-appointed independent experts to address the inequality of arms between prosecution and defence. Hayes is clear that the British legal system, while superficially fair, has structural features that make it prone to convicting people who lack the resources or knowledge to challenge technical evidence effectively.