July 2026: Government declines to widen the Thirlwall terms of reference (16 July) · new 100-page insulin report to the CCRC challenging the trial evidence (9 July) · Thirlwall report still expected no earlier than September · inquests relisted to 2027 · Shoo Lee Panel: no medical evidence of deliberate harm.
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Independent clinical biochemist
Retired consultant in clinical biochemistry, and co-author with six other specialists of a joint expert witness report on Babies F and L. Told BBC Radio 4's File on Four that the Roche immunoassay used at trial can produce "misleading results" and that he would not forward such a result to clinical colleagues without a confirmatory test to verify its "velocity and integrity".
The joint report Ismail co-authored concluded the jury was misled: insulin autoantibodies can produce falsely high immunoassay results and can cross the placenta to cause apparent hyperinsulinism in newborns, the Liverpool laboratory's testing did not meet forensic standards, and no confirmatory mass-spectrometry test was carried out before the results were relied on in court.
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