What does Farage know? His latest comments on the Lucy Letby case leave many wondering if justice was truly served.
Nigel Farage has added his voice to growing concerns about the safety of Lucy Letby‘s murder convictions, saying that he is ‘getting more and more doubts’.
The Reform UK leader was responding to a powerful article in the Daily Mail by Sir Jeremy Hunt, who was Health Secretary when the babies died at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Sir Jeremy called for an urgent re-examination of the case, saying: ‘If Letby really did kill seven babies in their cots and attempted to kill seven more, no punishment short of the death penalty is too harsh.
‘But if they were caused by professional shortcomings, we need to know why.
‘More than anything else, we need to make sure other families don’t have to go through the same tragedy.’
He added he had noted the findings of the international panel of paediatric specialists and neonatologists, and had also read a ‘wide range of expert concerns about the conduct of the criminal case’.
Sir Jeremy said: ‘Taken together… this analysis raises serious and credible questions about the evidence presented in court, the robustness of expert testimony and the interpretation of statistical data.’
Nigel Farage (pictured) has added his voice to growing concerns about the safety of Lucy Letby’s murder convictions
Letby, 38, is serving 15 whole life sentences for the murder of seven babies and attempted murder of seven others
Mr Farage told GB News: ‘I’m just beginning to get more and more doubts about that issue.’
Since Letby lost her appeal last year a mass of evidence undermining the prosecution’s case has been gathered by her new legal team.
It has raised questions about the claim the nurse was on duty for every suspicious incident and over the testimony of Dr Dewi Evans, 75, the prosecution’s chief expert witness.
The Criminal Cases Review Commission, which deals with potential miscarriages of justice, is studying the new material, which includes evidence that Dr Evans changed his mind over how three babies died.
Trump addresses the nation after US forces bombed Iran’s nuclear sites as he issues chilling warning
President Donald Trump called Saturday’s strikes on a trio of Iranian nuclear sites a ‘spectacular military success’ and gave a stark warning to Tehran that more attacks would be coming if the regime didn’t make peace.
Trump surprised the world a little before 8 p.m. Saturday by announcing on Truth Social that he had given the go-ahead to attack Iran, using six massive 30,000-pound ‘bunker buster’ bombs and 30 Tomahawk missiles to destroy Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.
The president’s decision to join Israel on a mission to wipe out the Islamic republic’s nuclear program comes nine days after Israel first attacked.
Shortly after 10 p.m., Trump addressed the nation in the White House‘s Cross Hall, flanked by Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
He spoke for less than four minutes.
‘Tonight I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success,’ Trump said. ‘Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.’
‘Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier,’ Trump warned.
President Donald Trump (center left) gave brief remarks about the U.S.’s strikes in Iran alongside (from left) Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
President Donald Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that Iran’s Fordow nuclear enrichment facility was destroyed using six massive 30,000-pound ‘bunker buster’ bombs
The president opened his remarks by calling Iran the ‘world’s No. 1 state-sponsor of terror.’
‘For 40 years, Iran has been saying “death to America, death to Israel,”‘ Trump said. ‘They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs. That was their specialty.’
He blamed the deaths of thousands on Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force, who the U.S. assassinated under the direction of Trump at the Baghdad airport in January 2020.
‘It will not continue,’ Trump warned.
Trump thanked and congratulated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who the president spoke to by phone after the U.S.’s bombing campaign, the Daily Mail confirmed.
‘We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before,’ Trump boasted. ‘And we’ve gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel.’
The president then thanked the U.S.’s top military officials – saying that he hoped he would not have to order a strike on Iran again.
‘This cannot continue. There will either be peace or there will be tragedy for Iran far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days,’ he warned.
A satellite image taken Friday of the Fordow nuclear site in Iran, that President Donald Trump said on Saturday was destroyed by a U.S. strike using B-2 bombers and six massive 30,000-pound ‘bunker buster’ bombs
President Donald Trump announced a little before 8 p.m. Saturday that the United States had dropped bombs on three nuclear sites in Iran – after on Thursday giving himself two weeks to make a decision on whether the U.S. would join Israel’s war with the Islamic regime
The United States used B-2 bombers to carry out Saturday’s mission in Iran. The stealth bombers were tracked flying across the Pacific Ocean earlier Saturday, fueling speculation over whether President Donald Trump had initiated an attack
A U.S. Air Force photo shows a ‘bunker buster’ bomb – that was used to take out Iran’s Fordow nuclear site in an attack launched by the United States, hitting Iranian targets early Sunday morning
‘Remember, there are many targets left. Tonight’s was the most difficult of them all, by far, and perhaps the most lethal. But if peace does not come quickly we will go after those other targets with precision, speed and skill,’ the president said.
He warned that most Iranian targets can be taken out ‘in a matter of minutes.’
‘There’s no military in the world that could have done what we did tonight. Not even close. There’s never been a military that could do what took place just a little while ago,’ Trump said.
Trump ended his brief remarks by thanking God.
‘I want to just say we love you God, and we love our great military, protect them. God bless the Middle East. God bless Israel and God bless America,’ Trump said.
As the president was speaking, the White House released a number of images of Trump and his top officials meeting Saturday in the Situation Room.
Trump was wearing a red Make America Great Again ballcap as Vance, Hegseth, Rubio, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine and CIA Director John Ratcliffe gathered around him.
The president’s address came after he announced the attacks on Iran using his Truth Social network, a little before 8 p.m. Saturday.
‘We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan,’ the president said.
‘All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow,’ he continued. ‘All planes are safely on their way home.’
Smoke rises following an Israeli attack on the IRIB building, which houses Iran’s state broadcaster in Tehran on Monday. Israel started attacking Iran, with the aim of taking out the Islamic republic’s nuclear program on Thursday, June 12
A member of an Iranian rescue team searches through rubble earlier this week in Tehran, Iran after an Israeli strike
NOTHING TO SEE HERE: President Donald Trump pumped his fist – but didn’t address the press – as he arrived back at the White House from Bedminster around 6 p.m. Saturday. He would announce about two hours later that he had greenlit attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities
President Donald Trump, wearing his red Make America Great Again ballcap, is photographed in the White House Situation Room Thursday evening. Secretary of State Marco Rubio (right) was at his side
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles (left) sits in the White House’s Situation Room on Saturday evening alongside Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine (right)
‘Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this,’ Trump said. ‘NOW IS HE TIME FOR PEACE!’
‘Thank you for your attention to this matter,’ he added.
Netanyahu applauded Trump in his own remarks, made early Sunday morning.
‘Congratulations, President Trump. Your bold decision to target Iran’s nuclear facilities with the awesome and righteous might of the United States will change history,’ the Israeli leader said.
Mehdi Mohammadi, a senior adviser to Mohammad Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s Parliament, downplayed on social media the impact the U.S. strikes had on Iran’s nuclear program.
He said of Fordo: ‘The site had been evacuated a long time ago and the damagres are not irreversible,’ adding, ‘you cannot bomb knowledge.’
The decision could impact Trump politically, as he had pledged to his MAGA base on the campaign trail that he would end U.S.’s involvement in ‘forever wars’ and prevent ‘World War III’ from happening on his watch.
The president revealed to Fox News’ Sean Hannity that the U.S. military used six massive 30,000-pound ‘bunker buster’ bombs on Iran’s Fordow nuclear site.
The other two nuclear sites were targeted with 30 Tomahawk missiles launched from submarines 400 miles away.
Additionally, The New York Times reported that the B-2 stealth bombers used in the attack flew non-stop for about 37 hours from their base in Missouri and were refueled several times in the air.
U.S. military personnel were warned after the American strike that the Iranians could retaliate on troops stationed in the region.
The country’s largest military base in the Middle East, the Al Udeid Air Base, is located outside Doha in Qatar.
Trump addressed the troops at that base when he visited the Middle East last month.
There are also concerns that Iran could use their affiliates in the Middle East, or terror cells, to launch attacks.
The Iranian-backed Houthis, based out of Yemen, had previously warned that they would attack U.S. ships in the Red Sea if Trump greenlit an attack on the Iranian homeland.
Other Iranian-backed groups, including Hezbollah, operating out of Lebanon, and Hamas, out of Gaza, have been weakened by Israel in the aftermath of Hamas’ October 7, 2023 terror attack.
Members of Iranian rescue teams search through debris inside a building targeted by Israeli strikes in Tehran, Iran
Rocket trails are seen in the sky above the Israeli coastal city of Netanya amid a barrage of Iranian rocket fire on Saturday
A woman injured in an Israeli attack is seen in the hospital on Saturday in Tehran, Iran
Prior to the Truth Social post, the president hasn’t shown his hand, walking into the White House Saturday evening without speaking to reporters around 6 p.m.
The White House even called a ‘lid’ – which is when the press pool, which tracks the president’s movements, is dismissed for the day.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that the president was giving himself two weeks to decide whether or not to attack Iran, with diplomatic options seemingly still on the table.
The Europeans had met with the Iranians on Friday in Geneva, Switzerland, but Trump dismissed those talks.
‘Iran doesn’t want to speak to Europe. They want to speak to us. Europe is not going to be able to help them,’ Trump said after landing in New Jersey on Friday.
A round of U.S.-Iranian nuclear talks scheduled last Sunday to take place in Oman had been canceled once Israel’s siege began.
Israel’s bombing campaign had started on Thursday, June 12, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyanu warning that Iran was coming too close to making a nuclear bomb.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (left) and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (right) are photographed in the Situation Room Saturday. The White House released the photos as President Donald Trump was making remarks in the White House’s Cross Hall
CIA Director John Ratcliffe sits in the Situation Room with his hands pressed together next to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (left) on Saturday
Vice President J.D. Vance (left) sits alongside President Donald Trump (right) in the Situation Room Saturday evening as the U.S. bombed three Iranian nuclear sites
President Donald Trump (upper left) hovers alongside (from left) Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine, Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
Trump joined in on that assessment Friday, telling reporters as he landed in Morristown, New Jersey that ‘it looked like I’m right about the material they’ve gathered already.’
‘It is a tremendous amount of material and I think within a matter of weeks or certainly within a matter of months they will be able to have a nuclear weapon and we can’t let that happen,’ Trump said.
He smacked down an assessment made by his Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard – a former Democrat – when she testified before Congress in March.
Gabbard had told lawmakers that the U.S. intelligence community ‘continues to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon.’
She also said that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had ‘not authorized a nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.’
Trump told reporters when asked about Gabbard’s statement: ‘Well, then my intelligence community is wrong.’
Gabbard has since clarified her comments.
‘The dishonest media is intentionally taking my testimony out of context and spreading fake news as a way to manufacture division,’ she posted to X on Friday. ‘America has intelligence that Iran is at the point that it can produce a nuclear weapon within weeks to months, if they decide to finalize the assembly.’
‘President Trump has been clear that can’t happen, and I agree,’ she said.
Gabbard wasn’t pictured in any photos the White House released from the Situation Room Saturday.
Semafor reported that Gabbard had been in the crucial meeting.
