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{{letbyexpert|Dr. Andreas Marnerides |Consultant |Pathology | Remunerated expert witness (prosecution)|P}}<ref>{{pl|https://www.chesterstandard.co.uk/news/23628455.recap-lucy-letby-trial-july-3---judges-summing/|Lucy Letby Trial recap}}, ''Chester Standard'', July 3, 2023.</ref>  

{{Letbyexpert| Dr. Owen Arthurs |Professor |Paediatrics and radiology | Remunerated expert witness (prosecution) |N}}<ref>{{pl|https://www.chesterstandard.co.uk/news/23636819.recap-lucy-letby-trial-july-6---judges-summing/|Lucy Letby Trial recap}}, ''Chester Standard'', July 6, 2023: “Professor Owen Arthurs viewed radiographic images for Child M and said they could not support or refute an air embolus.”</ref>

{{letbyexpert|Dr. Sally Kinsey | Professor | Haematology |  Remunerated expert witness (prosecution) |N}}<ref>{{pl|https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-63798909|Lucy Letby: Baby's catastrophic bleed not spontaneous, trial told}}, BBC, November 29, 2022. Per this report, Dr. Kinsey accepted in cross-examination that her findings did not assist with the cause of death, and that she had limited familiarity with air embolus.  </ref>

{{letbyexpert|Dr. Peter Hindmarsh|Professor| Endocrinology| Remunerated expert witness (prosecution)|P}}<ref>{{pl|https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/lucy-letby-manchester-crown-court-university-college-london-hereford-b1062992.html?|Baby had dangerously low blood sugar levels over three days, Letby trial told}}, ''The Standard'', 24 February 2023.</ref>

{{Letbyexpert|Dr. Stavros Stivaros | Professor |Radiology|Remunerated expert witness (prosecution)|N}}<ref>{{pl|https://www.chesterstandard.co.uk/news/23636819.recap-lucy-letby-trial-july-6---judges-summing/|Lucy Letby Trial recap}}, ''Chester Standard'', July 6, 2023: “Paediatric neuroradiologist Dr Stavros Stivaros provided agreed evidence in which he said Child M had shown signs of brain damage, likely caused by the collapse on April 9, 2016.”</ref>

{{letbyexpert|Dr. Simon Kenney | Consultant | Paediatrics | Remunerated expert witness (prosecution) |N}}<ref>This may seem controversial, but in all the reports online there is no indication of what evidence he gave. It is not reported or mentioned in judgments or summing up. I am assuming, therefore, it was uncontroversial evidence, that may have admitted by consent as a witness statement and not cross-examined. Happy to be corrected.</ref>

| Dr. Dewi Evans || Medical Doctor || Paediatrics || Remunerated expert witness (prosecution) {{cellpink}} Prosecution  

| Dr. Sandie Bohin || Medical Doctor || Paediatrics|| Remunerated expert witness (prosecution) {{cellpink}} Prosecution  

| Dr. Ravi Jayaram || Consultant || Neonatology || Prosecution witness {{cellpink}} Prosecution

| Dr. Stephen Breary || Consultant || Neonatology || Prosecution witness {{cellpink}} Prosecution  

{{Expertdef|Dr. Shoo Lee|Professor|Neonatology|Defence}}<ref name="Panel"> Member of [[Media:Shoo Lee Expert Panel.pdf|International Expert Panel]]</ref>  

{{expertdef|Dr. Jane Hawdon|Consultant|Neonatology|Neutral}}<ref>{{pl|https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2024-11-12/specialist-doctor-felt-misled-about-suspicion-over-baby-deaths|Specialist doctor ‘felt misled’ about suspicion over baby deaths, Lucy Letby inquiry hears}}, ITV, 12 November 2024. Dr. Hawdon’s contemporaneous review concluded that the deaths of Babies A, I, O and P – were “unexpected and unexplained.” Her evidence to the Thirlwall Inquiry was that she may have taken a different approach to her review if she knew of the consultants’ suspicions of murder.</ref>  

{{letbyexpert| Dr. Michael Hall| Consultant | Neonatology | Remunerated expert witness (defence)|D}}<ref>{{pl|https://web.archive.org/web/20240826095436/https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1940403/lucy-letby-innocent-expert-evidence||My evidence might have changed killer nurse Lucy Letby's trial}} ''Express'', August 26, 2024.</ref>   

{{expertdef|Dr. Roger Norwich|Consultant|Neonatology|Defence}}<ref name="KillerorCoincidence">{{pl|https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/09/lucy-letby-evidence-experts-question?|Lucy Letby: killer or coincidence? Why some experts question the evidence}} ''Guardian'' 9 Jul 2024.</ref>

| Dr. Alan Wayne Jones|| Professor|| Forensic toxicology|| Independent {{cellgreen}} Defence 

| Dr. Svilena Dimitrova || Consultant || Neonatologist || Independent {{cellgreen}} Defence  

| Dr. Stephen Senn||Professor||Health statistics|| Independent {{cellgreen}} Defence  

| Dr. Neil Aiton || Consultant ||Neonatology || Independent {{cellgreen}} Defence

| Lord Sumption || Supreme Court Judge||Criminal  

Law||Independent{{cellgreen}}Defence<ref>{{pl|https://t.co/UoV3lyjWpJ|Why I believe Lucy Letby is probably innocent}} ''Sunday Times'', March 30 2025.</ref>

| Dr. Faye Skelton || Professor || Criminology and Cognitive Psychology || Independent {{cellgreen}} Defence<ref name="ch5doc">{{pl|https://www.channel5.com/show/lucy-letby-the-new-evidence|Lucy Letby: The New Evidence}}, Channel 5, September 2024.</ref>

{{expertdef| Dr. Colin Morley|Professor|Neonatology|Defence}}<ref>{{pl|https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89l05e97vqo|File on Four}}, BBC, 1 October 2024 </ref>

{{expertdef|Dr. Richard Taylor|Consultant|Neonatology|Defence}}<ref>{{pl|https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/lucy-letby-legal-team-new-evidence-convictions-klzvwmcx2|Lucy Letby prosecution expert ‘changes mind’ over how babies died|}}, ''The Times'', December 16 2024</ref>

{{expertdef|Dr. Waney Squier|Consultant|Neuropathologist|Defence}}<ref name="ch5doc"/>

{{expertdef|Dr. Matthew Orde |Consultant|Forensic Pathologist|Defence}}

{{expertdef|Dr. David Wilson|Professor|Criminology|Prosecution}}<ref>{{pl|https://web.archive.org/web/20250326023225/https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/viewpoint/25032488.accept-lucy-letby-killer-no-matter-nice-seems/|Accept that Lucy Letby is a killer, no matter how “nice” she seems}}, ''The Herald'', 24 March 2025. (Dr. Wilson is often cited as being pro-prosecution, but his views seem more nuanced than that. For example, his article closes as follows:  

{{expertdef|Dr. Keith Frayn|Professor|Human Metabolism|Prosecution}}<ref>{{pl|https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/lucy-letby-evidence-against-case-h2hzsbm00|The actual evidence against Lucy Letby}}, ''The Times'', February 5, 2025.</ref>

{{expertdef|Dr. Normal Fenton|Professor| Statistics|Defence}}<ref name="NormanScott">{{pl|https://tinyurl.com/normanandscott|Is Lucy Letby guilty? Professor Norman Fenton interviews Law Health Tech from Twitter and Substack}}</ref>

{{expertdef|Dr. Scott McLachlan|Lecturer|Law, Health Science, Informatics and Computing|Defence}}<ref name="NormanScott"/>

{{expertdef|Dr. John Ashton|Professor|Public Health|Defence}}<ref>{{pl|https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/25046232.former-cumbrian-director-health-voices-concerns-letby-trial/|Former Cumbrian director of health voices concerns over Letby trial}}, ''Cumberland News and Star'', March 31, 2025.</ref>

{{expertdef|Dr. David Livermore|Professor|Medical Microbiology|Defence}}<ref>{{pl|https://dailysceptic.org/2023/09/11/lucy-letby-must-be-allowed-an-appeal/|Lucy Letby Must Be Allowed an Appeal}}, ''The Daily Sceptic'', 11 September 2023</ref>

{{letbyexpert|Dr. Adel Ismail|Consultant|Endocrinology|Independent|D}}<ref>{{pl|https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89l05e97vqo|Lucy Letby: Experts tell BBC about medical evidence concerns}} BBC, 1 October 2024.</ref>