Firefly, the only one tying herself in knots here is you.
“Why do you find it so implausible to believe she spiked the bags?”
Because it is implausible. Plainly so. You’re arguing that she spiked these bags undetected, not even mildly suspected, even though:
- TPN bags at COCH were compounded under sterile conditions in the hospital pharmacy (not mixed ad hoc on the ward) and had tamper-evident seals. Substituting or secretly adulterating multiple bags without detection would have been highly improbable.
- Insulin is not stable in TPN solutions. It absorbs onto plastic surfaces, binds to amino acids, and degrades in glucose-rich mixtures. Concentrations would fall drastically, quickly. Extremely large amounts would need to be used to allow for this, yet:
- No insulin was missing from the fridge.
- No evidence of LL having stolen or attempted to buy insulin, despite the large amount required hereafter.
- Even if insulin was injected, the actual amount delivered to the infant could easily be negligible, making it utterly unsuitable as a method of deliberate poisoning.
- A single tampered batch could unintentionally affect several babies, making “targeted” poisoning (of the like she is alleged to have carried out) virtually impossible.
- Tampering with TPN bags would be visible, leave forensic traces. A calculated killer would be unlikely to choose such an impractical and unreliable method.
- Why on earth would she do any of this this, given she had already (according to the prosecution) invented and used several undetectable yet highly effective murder methods?
- She wasn’t even there.
- There is literally nothing to link LL to this idea.
- She would have to have the predictive powers of Nostradamus in order to foresee that one of the bags she poisoned would tissue after she left work and need to be replaced AND she was able to spike the exact bag that another nurse would select from the fridge to continue the poisoning on that baby, specifically.
There are no documented cases of insulin murders via TPN adulteration. It is not considered a plausible modus operandi in toxicology or forensic medicine, even if she didn’t have to literally be a witch in order to carry this out while miles away in bed, asleep.
“She knew they'd be stumped and switch bags”
HOW?! Witchcraft? The bag was switched because the line tissued. She could not have known this would happen.
“and also wanted to distance herself from the hanging of the first bag being the point when the issues started.”
OR - just hear me out here - OR she could have had no idea whatsoever that the line would tissue and it’s a flipping mad reach to claim that she did somehow divine this future event and that she preemptively spiked another bag because she somehow knew this.
“It's like you can't fathom she'd do something like this to try and put herself out of the frame?”
It’s like you can’t fathom that I’m not going to accept anything for which there is zero evidence.
“Again, it's like you expect serial killers to be stupid and do all this in front of people.”
Again, it’s like you think this genius killer is stupid enough to leave incriminating evidence in her house when she has known for ages that she’s under investigation by the police and has been searched before once already. Which is it? Is she clever or is she stupid? Pick one.
“Yeah something tells me you'd believe there's another culprit who just so happened to stop the minute Lucy was removed before you believed the most simple logical explanation.”
Nope. I think the babies were hypoglycaemic and that the immunoassays returned false results, as they are well known to do. Simple as that. Occam’s Razor.
You are the one who should be looking for a different perpetrator, if they were murder attempts, given the fact that there is ZERO evidence to connect LL to these cases.
I think the death spike tailed off when LL was removed from the unit because they downgraded the unit at the exact same time so that they were no longer taking in babies of the same acuity.
Of course you already know all this because it’s been meticulously laid out for you dozens of times, by multiple people, but you keep somehow forgetting about that.