This programme explores the views of a team of international scientists who say that the prosecution case against nurse Lucy Letby doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
Writing
Methodical dismantling of statistical evidence that convicted.
Direction
Ferguson lets damning silences speak louder than narration.
Director
Ben Ferguson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The prosecution's key evidence relied heavily on a Texas Sharp Shooter fallacy—cherry-picking clusters from random data, a statistical error so basic it horrified the international reviewers.
This case sparked rare public pushback from the Royal Statistical Society, who warned that Britain's justice system was failing to understand probability—echoing the Sally Clark tragedy two decades prior.
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