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I'm not expressing any opinion other than that I think he's worth listening to and the programme was not wild and sensationalised as described by another member. I'm not equipped to deal with the medical or statistical evidence at all: do look at the programme and you'll see the statistics...

Agreed, Dotta, and that was very much one of Dr Hammond's points.

I have read the article by Dr Phil Hammond (his pseudonym there is "MD") in Private Eye and seen the TV programme in which he, not Gill, is the main narrator. I think it's a mistake to dismiss them and people should at least read and watch before making dismissive comments. Phil Hammond is a...

Didn't attend this one, I agree. One detail: they keep saying much was made of the 'I did this' notes, but as I recall the prosecution made much less of them than many of us expected - considering they are a strange thing for an innocent person to write, however much stress they were under...

The discussion goes on in the press: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/09/lucy-letby-evidence-experts-question

I agree. These links with interviews with Dr Ravi Jayaram were probably posted on the last thread but I'll post them again: https://www.itv.com/watch/news/babies-couldve-been-saved-doctor-who-helped-catch-lucy-letby-blames-hospital/xcytcvm...

No, not really. I just thought, this is the defence team going through the motions. As has been pointed out, BM was doing a professional job, not expressing his personal views.

Yes, the BBC live feed makes it clear it was BM - I was confused at first by the Dan Donoghue link.

BBC live feed here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-66551231

Nothing in mitigation according to BM? Just that she has maintained her innocence throughout.

Sky reports that a prison van has just brought Lucy Letby to court, but that she is expected to refuse to leave the cells. https://news.sky.com/story/lucy-letby-trial-live-jurors-in-tears-as-uks-most-prolific-baby-killer-found-guilty-families-devastated-and-angry-after-torturous-case-12918931

From July 2022 'Previously, proceedings were only broadcast from certain Court of Appeal cases. The contract has now been extended to the Crown Court and Sky, BBC, ITN and Press Association are able to apply to film and broadcast sentencing remarks, with the judge deciding whether to grant the...

Article on Operation Hummingbird: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/20/lucy-letby-dozens-more-babies-police-believe-chester-liverpool?utm_term=64e2e16bf788ea99ff2359417a156c31&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUK_email

Of course you're right. The consultants were on the patients' side. Nurses would normally be too. There shouldn't be any difference. But this particular management in this situation, while claiming to be doing that, did actually seem to be grossly partisan in favour of LL and it's fair to ask if...

I was driven to take up their free subscription offer. You just have to remember to cancel before they start charging you after 3 or 4 months (I forget which). I wasn't much impressed with that article but there are some other good ones.

She could. You'd expect a union rep to be involved, but were they? It seems as if her parents took that role! I don't know what the dates are of the texts CS2C has quoted but I think calling the police came later, reluctantly, didn't it? Odd if this wasn't clarified when she was being...

Thank you for that link, it's an extremely interesting article, although as it's behind a paywall I had to sign up to 'four free months' to get it, and hope I'll remember to cancel it! There are a number of points I hadn't realised before, such as the fact that a different judge (Mrs Justice...

I think they can bring in new evidence or decide not to use a witness they used before, or as you suggest the defendant might decide not to appear. I also think that although the same barristers would normally appear there's no rule to say they can't be changed. Hard to imagine this working in...

Well, the police investigation of the Countess of Chester Hospital is continuing, isn't it? Operation Hummingbird. There was a recruitment ad for a DCI only last summer...

I agree. Sometimes the correct verdict on the legal evidence is not what we'd like, or even what seems fair. In that case, though, fortunately there was quite enough to put the perpetrator away for good (more or less) on the other murder charge (and there were other serious charges of which...