Philip Rice

[Philip Rice @Hantavirusrice]

@MartynPitman @RichardHor54460 @letbymoj @ClarkeMicah That’s great news. Well done Chris.

[Martyn Pitman @MartynPitman]

This week saw the release of what will become the definitive text on the #LucyLetby case; 'Reasonable Doubt' by @CPMorris1234

Meticulously researched, through interviews with numerous renowned experts across many relevant fields. Painstakingly evidence-based.

A must read.

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

An excellent occasion, full of serious and dedicated people working for the the truth. Buy the book if you can, and read it too. 'Reasonable Doubt' by Christopher Morris, Cinto Books.

[Martyn Pitman @MartynPitman]

Thank you @GuerrillaCarl for providing clarity with respect to my role, the limitations that I expressed in providing it and for explaining your actions.

One would hope that this will now satisfy the doubters / misfits who elect to aggressively challenge. But I fear it won't! 🙄

[Carl @GuerrillaCarl]

A few questions keep coming up since the TV interview and the lastest YouTube video. Fair enough. And although we have answered many of these previously, here they are again, answered, once.

On Martyn Pitman. We had one conversation with Martyn. He explained in plain medical terms what was likely happening at the time based on our memories and personal notes. He said at every stage that without our full medical records he could only go on what we told him. He isn't the only clinician we've spoken to. Other doctors and neonatal nurses have helped us understand our own memories and our own recollections. That's what this has always been about. Getting at the truth.

On nurse Lucy. People ask how we know what happened and who told us. The hospital told us. In 2019, in a meeting we had to fight to get. What I can tell you firsthand is this: on our first visit to the neonatal unit, she sat with us and told us plainly what was going on with our daughter. We remember that because nobody else did. As for why we weren't told about the procedures that happened later, that's a question for the hospital, not for us. Which is rather the point.

On how we didn't know our baby was so sick. We knew Jessica was sick. We were there, we could see her. What we didn't know was how sick, because nobody told us. We didn't know what procedures had been done to her. You can't know what you're not told. That is the whole problem, and it's the reason we're still asking for her notes ten years later. And for the record, every clinician we've asked has told us the same thing: informing parents about a procedure is the job of the doctor who performed it, not the cot side nurse.

On doing nothing for ten years. We asked questions. We wrote letters. We kept every reply. We pressed for answers the hospital never offered us, and it took until 2019 to get anything close to one. Quiet is not the same as doing nothing.

On grifting. The TV fee is going to the new neonatal unit at the Countess. Every penny. No other payment has ever been offered for our other media appearances.

On being manipulated or guided. I'm a big old git and I'm reasonably intelligent. Nobody tells me what to do. Period. Anyone who's met me will confirm that, probably with a long sigh. Every word that goes out under my name is mine. If you think someone's pulling my strings, you're welcome to come and meet me, have a go at pulling them yourself and see if it's easy.

I was there. My family was there. I don't need anyone to tell me what I remember.

[Janis @DeborahBlythe]

Almost certainly the most important book of the year. Reasonable Doubt, Chris Morris‘s forensic dissection of the Lucy Letby miscarriage of justice. @CPMorris1234 #freelucyletby

[Philip Rice @Hantavirusrice]

@MartynPitman Who or what are these people who are replying.

[Philip Rice @Hantavirusrice]

@CPMorris1234 Just arrived in the post. Top quality work. Thanks.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The damning HMCPSI report confirms what many of us have argued for years: the CCRC is a broken system that stubbornly protects flawed convictions rather than uncovering the truth. The shocking treatment of Andrew Malkinson cannot be repeated. Urgent reform is non-negotiable.

https://t.co/4aqYhJRwAd

[Ex-Prison Officer @Prison_Screw]

Can I just add to this strong account of the Letby injustice, prison is a real challenge, difficult enough if you’re guilty, impossibly difficult if you’re innocent.
Release under home curfew and retrial at the least.

https://t.co/tw6GZmkmQK

[Dr Svilena Dimitrova @NeoDoc11]

“Cruelty, negligence, and a profound lack of accountability” is the best way I can describe what the experience of many I have spoken to - including myself - working in the NHS has become in recent years.

For those of us who have spent more than a quarter of a century studying, training, and working within the NHS, coming to terms with its current state brings a complex form of grief. It is not simply disappointment or frustration - mourning is the correct term to describe it. The NHS has always had flaws, but it genuinely was never this bad before.

My involvement in the Letby case has accelerated my gradually worsening loss of faith. I did not choose to speak up about the Letby case naively. Over many years, I have supported people raising concerns about patient safety and have witnessed first-hand the familiar patterns of whistleblower retaliation, scapegoating, and institutional self-preservation. I thought I knew what both individuals and institutions were capable of.

As an instructed expert, I examined the full medical records for all of the babies involved. I subsequently reviewed the medical expert reports and all communications that preceded what can only be described as the persecution of Letby prior to her prosecution. That direct exposure - both to the clinical material and to the institutional correspondence - fundamentally shifted my perspective from a belief that “we can still make this better” to the more unsettling fact that “it is over, isn’t it”.

I have never before seen an example in which not only multiple individuals but also multiple institutions - those meant to safeguard truth, justice, and patient safety - converged in a way that actively enabled a profound miscarriage of justice. What makes it even more disturbing is that some individuals within those systems appeared to recognise that something was deeply wrong, yet the institutions themselves proved unable - or unwilling - to intervene.

Being involved as an instructed medical expert in the Letby case has profoundly altered me, both as a doctor and as a human being. It has shattered the faith I once held in the capacity of most individuals and systems to self-correct when faced with obvious evidence they have made mistakes.

For the first time in my professional life, I no longer believe the NHS is capable of meaningful reform from within. I now find myself instead observing its gradual implosion - which now is I think inevitable - with deep sorrow, hoping that enough wise and compassionate people survive whatever follows, so that they may help rebuild something from the wreckage.

https://t.co/p5MJYbAv2k

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[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

If you meet any MP or Minister at an Armed Forces Day event please ask them what are they doing to stop our Northern Ireland veterans being persecuted under the Troubles legislation.

Have they talked to Burnham about it?

Have they talked to Benn?

Will they vote against it?

[Philip Rice @Hantavirusrice]

@triggered1972 @DebRoberts22249 You need motive. There is none.

[Philip Rice @Hantavirusrice]

@maryam_0m4r @DrNeenaJha @JamesSM45803451 GP should have written a letter

[Philip Rice @Hantavirusrice]

@DrNeenaJha GP should have written a letter to go with the patient. Pen and paper.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The double standards on show in this case are staggering.

If a British citizen is accused of an offence affecting America, the US demands immediate extradition - regardless of whether that offence took place on US soil.

Yet when a US pilot commits a violent crime in the UK, we meekly cede jurisdiction to a foreign military court.

Our legal relationship with America remains hopelessly lopsided.

https://t.co/KiRx42cA2X

[Philip Rice @Hantavirusrice]

@medicalmodelbri @rcgp That response is simply appalling. All that was required was a hand written note from the GP outlining why he/she thought the child had acute appendicitis. To try and dodge that in this response just shows how far standards have fallen. Pass/fail in MB BS exams.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

In the Letby case, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health identified the same problems. Yet the jury never saw that report. Instead, an individual was put forward as the explanation for institutional failure.

How many more warnings do we need?

Until we confront systemic failings, we will continue to put patients at risk - and we will continue to risk another hospital finding another scapegoat, and another miscarriage of justice.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

Dame Sue Black is absolutely right.

Her comments reinforce the views of dozens of world-class experts who have questioned the so called 'expert' evidence in the Letby case.

I hope that the CCRC gives a prompt ruling on this matter, and refers it back to the Court of Appeal, as Miss Letby has now spent more than 2,000 days in prison for what many now believe is a serious miscarriage of justice.