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·Dr Shoo K. Lee and International Expert Panel

Shoo Lee International Expert Panel — press conference (3 February 2025)

The live press conference at which Dr Shoo Lee presented the Panel's case-by-case medical review. Dr Lee — the lead author of the 1989 air-embolism paper cited by the prosecution — stated that the skin signs described at trial do not match those in his own paper and that in every case reviewed, the Panel found no medical evidence of deliberate harm. The conference sets out the Panel's methodology and its principal findings.

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Watch the full press conference

Shoo Lee International Expert Panel — full press conference (3 Feb 2025)

Includes chapters and subtitles. Archived by lucyletbyinnocence.com. This is the single most important video on the case: watch this before forming a view.

Context

On 3 February 2025, at a press conference in London, Dr Shoo K. Lee — Professor Emeritus of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto and the lead author of the 1989 Archives of Disease in Childhood paper on neonatal air embolism — presented the findings of the International Expert Panel he convened. The panel comprises fourteen senior neonatologists, paediatric pathologists and paediatric specialists from Canada, the UK, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, New Zealand, Taiwan and the United States. It reviewed the medical evidence for every count on the Letby indictment.

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Panel members

The fourteen members are listed in full on our Experts page. The Panel report itself, hosted by Ms Letby’s legal representatives, is linked from our Documents library.

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Evidence issues

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