Overview
- Chief Constable Mark Roberts, in a letter dated April 8, accused Sir David Davis of making materially inaccurate and misleading Commons remarks about the Lucy Letby investigation and urged him to correct the record.
- Roberts rejected claims of tunnel vision, saying Operation Hummingbird drew on multiple independent specialists across neonatology and related fields rather than relying on a single adviser.
- He said experts first attributed collapses and deaths to deliberate harm before any shift analysis and he stressed that prosecutors did not rely on statistical evidence such as rota patterns.
- Davis, who raised his concerns in a March 26th adjournment debate, dismissed the police chief’s allegations, likened the case to the Post Office and Birmingham Six scandals, and called for an independent review of Cheshire Police’s work.
- Legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg KC criticized the police chief’s choice to challenge an MP through a public letter, as the Criminal Cases Review Commission assesses new reports from medical specialists and officials have said no further charges will be brought.