GUILTY UK - Nurse Lucy Letby, murder of babies, 7 Guilty of murder verdicts; 8 Guilty of attempted murder; 2 Not Guilty of attempted; 5 hung re attempted #38

[May72031]

I concur with what others had said, regarding the documentary and the new footage. It exposed yet another lie Letby and her supporters use - that the handover sheets were just accidentally brought home and left scattered here and there. I wish these documentaries would actually alert their viewers to some of the outrageous unevidenced claims made by McDonald and his "team of experts". They should start by pointing out that one of McDonald's "experts" made a false - and potentially libellous - claim accusing a doctor of killing a baby with a needle inserted into its liver. His "team of experts" then changed tactic, and presented a completely different theory involving a "traumatic birth", which, again, has no evidence to support it. Instead, they are presented as being credible. They are not.

But the AI stuff was a big turnoff. The age-old techniques of blurring out a person, or using an actor to portray them, or voice them, is still the way to go.

 

[CooperDyl]

I personally think the documentary did a pretty decent job of portraying both sides of the case, and also explaining why proponents of both her guilt and innocence may believe what they do.

The first 2/3rds of the doco recounts the evidence against Letby as well as providing a bit of background on the cases and the hospital involved, as well as Lucy herself. You hear from the prosecutions expert witness and also the police. The body cam footage also gave a good insight into what thing actually looked like in her arrests. If you stop the documentary at the 1 hour mark, you’ve essentially watched all you need to be fully convinced of Letby’s guilt.

The last third of the documentary goes back over that same evidence with a new light, explaining how it could have been misinterpreted or misconstrued. We also hear from a couple defenders of her innocence.

Agree with the posters above that the AI ‘digital anonymisation’ of some of those interviewed was terribly done and horribly jarring. Not a fan at all. Other than that I thought it was a pretty well made documentary and I could see people coming away from it either reaffirmed in their personal opinion of her guilt or innocence, or with new doubts either way.

Lastly, I find it hard to believe that nobody else has been held criminally liable to date (I know there were a few related arrests last year but afaik there hasn’t been a trial?). Even if you’re 100% convinced in Letby’s guilt - the people and institutions who let this go on for so long need to answer some serious questions.

All imo.

 

[Kasmeer]

I'm actually extremely surprised that it wasn't reported on during the trial. In my minds eye I'd always expected that they were simply randomly stuffed into places, such as the bag under the bed, but there were all ordered and were shown in a neat stack.

I think that that one point, if reported at the time, would have put a lot of her critics off from the outset.

Absolutely - although I did come to see her guilt eventually, I thought (and still did until, just now), that way too much was being made of those papers and it's easy for someone disorganised to bring them home and then dump them somewhere without thinking about them, as a "I'll deal with it later" kinda thing. Had they reported this, I'd have seen the significance immediately and probably been convinced rather sooner!

I might actually watch this one based on comments here; I usually avoid all LL coverage as the "innocence" claims annoy me too much and I can't face listening to a lot of nonsense, but it sounds like this one had some reasonable facts in it.

 

[JellyBee]

I’ve worked in healthcare previously so have always defended the idea of her being found with handover sheets. It’s so easy to put them in your pocket and then go home and realise you forgot to put it in the confidential waste bin.

That being said, it is absolutely drilled into you that handover sheets contain personal confidential information and if you lost it in public, your job would be at risk. When I’d accidentally take sheets home, I’d even worry about the possibility of my home being burgled and these sheets somehow ending up in the wrong hands. I can’t fathom that a ‘highly qualified/skilled’ nurse would take 250+ of them home and not worry about it, unless they were keeping them for nefarious purposes. That alone could get you into serious trouble with the NMC, let alone everything else she was doing.

I don’t put much stock into the fact they were chronological as you could argue she just put them in the box so they were chronological by default. But the fact there was 250+ and they were in a box marked ‘keep’ is utterly bizarre. The only possible defence I could think of is that she didn’t see them as containing private and sensitive information because it pertained to newborn babies and not adults. It is a worrying thought indeed.