Yeah. I suppose I’m more forgiving when it comes to the other stuff. I don’t really see anything that corroborates her being a killer.
If you had followed the trial very closely, I think you would have seen the corroboration of her guilt.
I think there’s just as much chance of her “always being there” as there are of her being a serial killer.
No, it wasn't like that. It wasn't just about her 'being there.' It is so much more than just that.
There was a comprehensive 5 year investigation before the trial even began. They scoured reports, every single staff members daily medical logs, hundreds of interviews, of staff, members, patient's families, staff from other clinics who coordinated efforts, and medical experts to review dozens of cases.
They took data from many staff's phones, from electronic instruments in the clinic showing who did what/when, took all of the data about who signed off on which medications and treatments, etc etc....
It was never about her just 'being there'----it was about her being personally involved and connected to each and every unexplained collapse. If it happens a few times it's just bad luck. But when it happens all of the time, it's a pattern thAt's hard to ignore.
After a few unexpected deaths, of babies under her care, her co-workers tried to comfort her, and said that she should take some time away from the 'critical care' nurseries. Maybe work with easier cases and relax and recover a bit. She was angry at the suggestion. Said that she 'needed' to go right back into the critical care unit because she didn't want to have those last tragic memories to take over.
So she got her wish and was allowed by her superiors to stay with most vulnerable babies---and the sudden collapses continued at their high rate. Some staff began to get suspicious but that didn't deter Lucy. Whenever she'd go on her 2 week vacations, there'd be no collapses.
There would be collapses or deaths on the day she left for vacation, none while gone, but on the very day she returned, babies would collapse or die. It's hard for the co-workers to ignore that.
And she was just an ordinary person, the kind who has a Boofle diary with cat vaccination records in it. Surely someone who can commit such heinous crimes out of nowhere, would have, at some point, let their personality-disorder mask slip?
It did slip. Some of her co-workers saw it. And th jury saw her mask slip during the trial. She got caught out in various lies and would double down when caught and continue to lie.
But there’s just nothing on Letby, and it’s confusing.
Not true.
Why would a serial killer basically be told that they’re caught (with everyone having been careful not to actually document the incriminating stuff), then be offered a transfer to a different unit or simply to “leave the unit”, and then decide the best course of action is to stay and fight everyone?
Because she didn't want to stop. She loved 'caring' for the vulnerable preemies and decide who'd live or die that day. She was addicted to it. Even when the doctors and co-workers KNEW and were actively trying to keep her off the floor, babies in her care were still collapsing and dying. She couldn't stop.
But anyway, I can fairly easily imagine her guilty. I can also fairly imagine her being not guilty, and I’m not dismissing this stuff that’s emerged. I’ve never known people to publicly put their necks on the line like this.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist. I don’t think there’s any sort of conspiracy in this case. I think this case is the legal equivalent of the white or blue dress illusion.
It wasn't an illusion. Those babies died gruesome deaths. Many were tortured.
The mother of Baby E walked into the nursery to feed him and found him screaming in pain, bleeding from his mouth. Nurse Lucy insisted that mum go back to hr room, and promised her the doctor was on his way.
3 hours later Baby E died from internal hemmorhage. And Nurse Letby DENIED that the mum had come to the nursery and seen him crying and bleeding. Letby said mum was mistaken. She said the baby was not bleeding.
And Letby's medical notes said that mum never arrived at nursery because the doctor had cancelled the scheduled feeding.
Too bad for Lucy that the mum had immediately called her husband and told him about their baby crying and bleeding. And she told a midwife about it. And Mom had her phone records corroborating her call to husband. And both mom and dad testified at the trial, about the bleeding child.
Lucy tried to deny it and call them mistaken. How would the parents of a dead child not remember or know what happened when they saw him dying?
It was Lucy's word against theirs and Lucy lost. The jury did not believe her. And Lucy was caught falsifying those medical notes because the doctor said he never cancelled that scheduled feeding.
Lucy lied about that too.
So don't try and say that child died from NHS understaffing or poor care etc. He died a brutal death because Nurse Luby assaulted that baby. He lost 1/4 of his total blood that night.
If it was just a natural occurrence, WHY would Letby have lied about the mum arriving at 9 pm to feed him? Why would she lie to the mum by saying the doctor was on his way?
Why didn't Letby actually call a doctor at 9 pm when the baby began bleeding? She wAited nearly an hour, but then she never told anyone he was bleeding from the mouth. She just left a message that there were traces of blood in his diaper.
That's much less urgent than actively bleeding from the mouth. So Letby minimised his symptoms and by the time the consultant got up to speed it was too late. Baby E was in a total collapse and nothing could be done to save him.
Murder of Child E
4 August 2015
Child E was born seven weeks premature along with his twin brother, Child F, and weighed less than 1.4kg (3lbs). His mother walks in on Letby trying to murder the newborn after arriving on the unit with his milk. He dies after suffering a
fatal bleed believed to be the result of Letby interfering with his nasogastric tube.
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- MethodIV air embolism and bleeding from trauma
Offence
Attempted murder of Child F
5 August 2015
Letby laces Child F’s feeding bag with insulin less than 24 hours after murdering his twin brother. A blood sample later confirms “extremely high”
insulin levels and very low C-peptide levels – proof he had been injected with insulin.
How events unfolded in neonatal unit where killer nurse worked at Countess of Chester hospital
www.theguardian.com
