you know what was one of the most interesting things i have ever done was follow this case. massive thanks to all who contributed.
Apparently a few pro's think its likely munchausens.
"A former detective superintendent, the lead detective on the
Beverley Allitt case of the 1990s, said that the amount of parallels between the cases made him think that "it's almost as if somebody's read the Allitt book" and that Letby's crimes may have been copycats.
[75]: 17:30 Allitt had attacked over a dozen infants in her care while working as a nurse in
Grantham, England, and the methods used in the cases were apparently identical, with Allitt having also injected some victims with air and insulin and physically assaulting them.
[75]: 17:30 It was believed that Allitt may have been motivated by what was then called
Munchausen's by proxy, in which she harmed others to gain attention for herself and it may be that this also explains Letby's attacks.
[75]: 18:00
Criminal psychologist Dominic Wilmott subscribes to this theory, commenting: "She wants to be involved in this case. She actually has the perfect opportunity not to be, right? So we expect most offenders to not want to get caught and to distance themselves from their offending behaviour. Beverley Allitt and Lucy Letby seemed to be injecting themselves into the inquiry, into the circumstances, so it shows that there's something else going on here."
[75]: 18:10 Just like in Letby's case, the hospital in Allitt's case was criticised for its slow speed of response.
[124] Fellow criminal psychologist Dr David Holmes agrees that Letby was motivated by Munchausen's.
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Criminologist David Wilson agrees that in Letby's case, Letby seemed to have a "
hero complex".
[124] A senior nurse testified on 21 March 2023 that Letby had told her before June 2016 that she, Letby, found non-intensive care of babies "boring" and had always wanted to be allocated to the intensive care unit, notwithstanding concerns among nursing staff that working long periods in intensive care would place a high burden on the mental health of nurses.
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According to Wilson, healthcare killers like Letby "[have] already developed the desire to kill before they join the healthcare setting".
[124] Speaking on
Newsnight, he said: "If you want to kill, of course you are going to identify people who are vulnerable. People whose deaths won't be noticed. And so guess what? The people that serial killers target, by and large, are older people, or they target very very young people, specifically in a neonatal unit in this case, where again small babies with chronic underlying healthcare where their deaths won't be commented upon or seen as being suspicious".
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And some pro's remain unconvinced
Amongst this, statistician
Richard D. Gill and lawyer Neil Mackenzie KC, who co-authored a work with others on the use of statistics in court cases, have also cast doubt on the outcome.
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Neil mackenzie kc is high profile especially on medical cases.
Neil specialises in the areas of professional negligence and industrial disease, and is predominantly instructed in complex, high value medical negligence actions. He acts for both pursuers and defenders across a range of subject matter that includes neurosurgery, general surgery, obstetrics and orthopaedics. Neil also deals with a large volume of other reparation claims. He is regularly instructed in industrial disease actions, in particular concerning asbestos. His experience of solicitor's negligence cases is extensive. In medical negligence and industrial disease actions, Neil must often deal with complex and difficult issues of causation. Neil regularly appears in Court in various different forums, with extensive experience of the Outer and Inner Houses of the Court of Session and a recent appearance in the UK Supreme Court.
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me, I think she did it.
