A forensic psychologist has raised 'serious questions' about the handwritten notes used to convict Lucy Letby of murder.
A report by Professor Gisli H Gudjonsson, who was instrumental in the freeing of the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six and is one of the world's leading experts on false confessions, says the nurse's infamous 'I am evil' notes were 'unreliable as evidence of a 'confession' or criminal intent'.
Detectives found dozens of Post-it notes and scraps of paper, including one that read: 'I killed them on purpose because I am not good enough to care for them.'
Another note said, 'I haven't done anything wrong' – but the seemingly incriminating notes were relied on by the prosecution in her conviction for the murder of seven newborns and the attempted murder of seven more at the Countess of Chester Hospital, given the absence of any forensic or CCTV evidence and the lack of a convincing motive.
Other experts have warned 'therapy notes' are designed for traumatised people to put the 'noise in their head' onto paper, so should not have been used as evidence against her.
