Andrew L. Urban,
In just under 80 minutes, the audio version of the New Yorker’s investigative piece about the Lucy Letby case provides a thorough expose of the hysterical miscarriage of justice that an entire legal system has managed. You can read it in full, too.
It’s a thorough and compelling piece of investigative journalism by Rachel Aviv. The article provides the fuller context – and remember, truth is context. There is also a remarkable echo of Kathleen Folbigg’s ‘confessional’ diaries, now dismissed as evidence against her. Letby’s version is a collection of handwritten notes.
It seems to me that the investigations by dedicated journalists in several cases is more thorough than police investigations. Unfortunately, the police investigations lead to court and can lead to wrongful convictions with loss of confidence in the legal system – the journalists’ investigations come too late.
Lucy Letby
Excerpt:
“The case against her gathered force on the basis of a single diagram shared by the police, which circulated widely in the media. On the vertical axis were twenty-four “suspicious events,” which included the deaths of the seven newborns and seventeen other instances of babies suddenly deteriorating. On the horizontal axis were the names of thirty-eight nurses who had worked on the unit during that time, with X’s next to each suspicious event that occurred when they were on shift. Letby was the only nurse with an uninterrupted line of X’s below her name. She was the “one common denominator,” the “constant malevolent presence when things took a turn for the worse,” one of the prosecutors, Nick Johnson, told the jury in his opening statement. “If you look at the table overall the picture is, we suggest, self-evidently obvious. It’s a process of elimination.”
But, we suggest, this is also a self-evidently obvious failure of investigation. A combination of tunnel vision, scientific incompetence, lack of imagination, rejection of common sense and egregious failure of the law.
Not a Lucy – a Patsy ? One should never think – even for one minute- the British Justice System necessarily delivers justice –
or even is obliged to ! Totally innocent man going to work in London – shot more than 6 times in the face by a gun happy police hero . What’s even more amusing is the response from the heroic police gruppenfuhrers. “He didn’t have a ticket”. How could one not- but scream with laughter? Just as when informed by the Queensland Police Black Shirt Gun Slingers (and dont forget the $30 million Palm Island ludicrous action against little children in their beds) dear leader (Obbergruppenfuhrer ?) “Stacy Train was lying on the ground wounded – firing at the Police Gunship”. The police helicopter observer said clearly ” the female is unarmed and crawling for cover .(from the blazing guns of our heroes). Maybe Tracy didn’t have a ticket either ? The more one reads of the Lucy Letby sad circumstance – the more one becomes doubtful about the whole seemingly concocted story – some nagging doubt ? Sure is ! Will Lucy get justice from the judge types – Not bloody likely! Appeals Courts are notorious for their moronic decisions – one example- Our lovely Grandma Sue – another example – Ray Bailey- dangling on the proud South Australian Government rope- apology for his family ? (from the swine) That would only come from a decent justice system – Not from the system that went after Lucy Letby ! (and they didn’t even need a Manock – they got their own lying, cheating, flexible forensics and jury fooling mendacity . One consoling thought abour our judge system- dam- can’t think of one ? Most of them will be dead before me- my gulag prison food- their judges fat faced gordon blue restaurant tucker .
From The Guardian (12Jun2024):
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/12/lucy-letby-convictions-constitute-significant-evidence-prosecutors-say
Has the leave to appeal application been given a hearing date?
No. Permission denied May 24, 2024
Here are some links for further info:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9773l3qzl4o
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-67488797
I fear this case will end up as scandalous as the UK post office saga.
Her first appeal to one judge lost. Her second appeal to three judges lost last month. Those outcomes were widely expected. The CCRC will obviously get involved, with Mark McDonald likely to be involved in the long legal process of rectifying this one, in my opinion.
This 16 minute video about the case is interesting https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ceri-e-morrice_lucy-letby-the-other-15-infantsabdridged-activity-7201930327840215041-SI2W
I’ve just been informed the CCRC has not received an application from her. Perhaps it’s coming.
Thanks Peter; taken together with the New Yorker report, this Ceri Morrice clip confirms my strongly held belief that Lucy Letby’s guilt is not beyond reasonbale doubt.
It just is INJUSTICE !