Lucy Letby: Was There Ever A Crime? John Sweeney was the first journalist to question the convictions against Lucy Letby. Joined by writer Edward Abel-Smith, the two reporters set out the evidence that the Countess of Chester Hospital suffered from sewage in the sinks, over-stretched staff and incompetent leadership. Failures across the NHS led to the Neonatal Unit where Lucy worked taking in severely ill pre-term babies and these factors explain the spike in deaths, not murder. Sweeney and Abel-Smith understand the grief of the parents of the dead babies but believe that Lucy Letby could have been the victim of a monstrous miscarriage of justice.
John Sweeney helped free cot death mums Sally Clark, Angela Cannings and Donna Anthony and reported the BBC Panorama Trouble At The Post Office. Edward Abel-Smith is working on a documentary and writing a book about a sub postmaster he believes could have been wrongly convicted of murdering his wife.