Emeritus Professor Richard Gill

Science for Justice is a Netherlands based campaigning organisation initially set up to campaign for the release of Lucy Letby.  I am Professor Richard Gill and I, along with many other experts and scientists believe there is absolutely no evidence, scientific or otherwise; no moral, legal or sociological reason, for Lucy Letby to be incarcerated in the UK.  I, along with many other esteemed colleagues across the world am absolutely convinced (scientifically and morally) that kind-hearted Lucy Letby has been wrong convicted of terrible crimes without a shred of evidence against her.

 

Surprisingly, this is not the first time this has happened to an innocent nurse.  It is not the first time a nurse has been scapegoated to cover up for the incompetence and abuses enacted by more powerful medical staff in hospitals (doctors, surgeons, managers).  Lessons should have been learned but have obviously not been.  Research papers are freely available and experts also.  The Lucy
Letby miscarriage of justice should never have happened.

 

However, as someone who has spent a lot of my professional career and personal life exposing bad 'science', it is not as unusual for me to see this pattern of incompetence repeat, in multiple countries.  As a scientist with very specific first-hand insight and knowledge in the field of this specific miscarriage of justice (nurses wrongly convicted of mass murder) I am one of very few people in the world who can comment on Lucy Letby with some authority.  I was involved in the successful fights for the exoneration of nurse Lucia De Berk, convicted on similarly flaky ground, and nurse, Daniela Poggiali.

 

One of the difficulties in investigating miscarriages of justice independently, is that the justice system does not relinquish court documents and official information easily, especially if the judges responsible for creating a miscarriage of justice would be exposed.  I am of the opinion there are many in the justice system who care less for real justice and are more interested in expediency.  This results in great suffering and cost to innocent people, and it is preventable.  

 

Charles Harris has experienced a miscarriage of justice.

 

I support the assertion that Charles has experienced a miscarriage of justice and feel he has also been treated inhumanely by a broken justice system.  There are no paths to seek redress it seems.  The injustice, for most people wrongly convicted in the UK, and the suffering caused can continue long after someone is released from prison.  Charles' experience, in court, while he was incarcerated, and his brave fight to expose what happened to him, demonstrate how difficult it is to fight against miscarriages of justice in a system which shows next to no interest.  His attempts to have both experts available in his defence case, and all court transcripts available before and after he was convicted, cost him his liberty and his mental health.  The system actively works against those wishing to challenge judges who hand down pain and misery to innocent people.  

 

Judge Goss was the judge who sat on Charles' court case, and also the judge who sat on Lucy Letby's case.  There are similarities with regards to his apparent disinterest in justice based on facts and evidence.  And there are other cases which he sat on which support this assertion.  I will be posting a blog piece very soon, highlighting these other examples and how I believe this happens - how some judges can be at the centre of multiple miscarriages of justice, and why redressing a miscarriage of justice is much, much harder than preventing one.

 

I have also been supporting Lucy Turnbull, now 58, the writer of the essay on this website supporting Charles.  I will write about Lucy another day when Lucy has finished her own book.  Lucy was never accused of a crime and never convicted of any crime in her whole life, but she was treated so suspiciously (with Judge Colin Boyd central to this treatment) that she was forced to ask for political asylum in several countries, without success and is currently seeking refuge in Asia. Her career was ruined, her life destroyed and her income decimated, on the secret, literally secret, judicial decisions of Judge Colin Boyd - the judge who refused her an inquiry into the murder of her eldest and first son; and the opportunity to defend herself regarding a situation in Iraq, in 2020.

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