Dr Sandie Bohin has publicly questioned the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service’s decision not to charge Lucy Letby with murdering and attempting to murder more babies.
The former Neo-natal nurse is already serving 15 life sentences for the murder of seven babies and attempted murder of seven more, while she was working at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Guernsey-based paediatrician, Dr Bohin was one of the prosecution witnesses who helped convict Letby.
Despite a growing campaign to reassess the case against Letby, Dr Bohin has now told a national newspaper that she was “surprised” Letby wasn’t charged with more crimes.
Dr Bohin also told the Daily Mail that her own life has been ruined by accusations made against her.
The newspaper reports that Dr Bohin said “her reputation had been ‘torn apart’ by unfounded allegations and news reports which have made her ill” and that she is “trying to sell her ‘forever home’ on Guernsey, so they can move back to the UK”.
As well as being paid as a prosecution witness in her first trial, Dr Bohin was tasked with reviewing evidence in the additional cases of murder and attempted murder that Cheshire Police alleged Letby was involved with.
The CPS decided not to prosecute Letby, because the evidence was not strong enough and it doubted a jury would convict her.
Cheshire Police said it did not agree with that decision, while Dr Bohin told the Daily Mail she was “surprised” by it.
“And I can see that the police might be disappointed in that outcome,” she told the Mail. “But that’s probably all I should say on that.
“I did my reports, and it’s up to other people to then decide if it reaches the evidential threshold, but I think that certainly some of them did.”
Ahead of Dr Bohin’s interview being published, her work as an expert witness in the Letby case was being publicly criticised again.
UK MP David Davis cited complaints made about Dr Bohin’s work in Guernsey in a speech to the House of Commons on Friday.
He criticised the police investigation into the Letby case and said lead prosecution witness, Dr Dewi Evans was motivated by money when he acted as an expert in the trial.
More widely, Mr Davis claimed none of the expert witnesses called by the prosecution were experts in neonatal care – the care of premature and newborn babies.
Dr Bohin was a Consultant Paediatrician during her 17 years working in Guernsey – which is the care of children – from birth to adulthood.
Naming her in the House of Commons last Friday, Mr Davis sought to minimise the relevance of Dr Bohin’s experience.
“Another prosecution expert, Dr Bohin, reviewed Evans’s work. She faced numerous complaints from patient her patients families, and later was criticised for ignoring a key symptom in one of her patients. These are the supposed experts that Cheshire Police and the CPS chose, rather than a panel of independent experts from all relevant disciplines as the NCA had advised.”
Just a day after Mr Davis made his speech, the national newspaper published its article quoting Dr Bohin who said she took early retirement last November, and has been “driven out of her job – and forced off the island, where she has lived and worked for the past 17 years – because of ‘hatred’ and a ‘campaign of misinformation’ against her”.
The MSG has since clarified for Express that Dr Bohin remains a Partner until the end of April. It is unclear when she stopped treating patients in the island however.
The MSG also told Express that it has no comments to make on the interview with Dr Bohin and the Daily Mail.
The Daily Mail article also referenced the arrest of Gavin and Jane St Pier who remain under police investigation accused of harassment. It is widely believed that Dr Bohin is the complainant in the case. Guernsey Police has told Express that “enquiries are ongoing” regarding Mr and Mrs St Pier.
Dr Bohin was also behind a Code of Conduct complaint against Deputy St Pier last year, which saw him found guilty of breaching the States Member’s code. His political colleagues rejected a suggested suspension as punishment though. He and his wife were arrested just days later.
The conflict between Dr Bohin and the St Pier family dates back years, to when one of Mr and Mrs St Pier’s children were under the former’s care. Deputy St Pier later named Dr Bohin in a States debate as he tried to force a political debate on a medical safeguarding report.
Dr Sandie Bohin remains a Partner of the Medical Specialist Group until the end of April.
The MSG told Express that it has no comment to make on the interview she has given to the Daily Mail.