“Ascribing morbid fascination to Letby depends on you already having decided she’s a killer (so what looks like laudable concern in an innocent person is flipped into morbid fascination when viewed through the filter of guilt) and then using that to argue it makes her more likely to come in on a day off is part of the circular reasoning that has dominated the guilty arguments throughout.”
@TheCountessofFitzdotterel this!
Nobody who knew her said she had a “morbid fascination”. There is nothing in her history to back up such an idea either. Even the doctors who accused her didn’t say that. Her co workers mostly liked her or didn’t have a huge opinion either way. Parents generally liked her.
People seem to think there were these huge red flags everywhere when the truth is that most people thought she was perfectly nice and normal until she was accused of murdering lots of babies. Even those few that weren’t keen called her “nice”. She failed one module with a mentor who was known to be a bit hard and she just didn’t get on with her. Her next mentor liked her very much. They remained friends (and she passed the training). When I think of how many people I’ve pissed off over the years - even just in these threads! 😱
In truth, there isn’t a single one of us whose reputation is so golden, and whose social, professional, and even internet history, is so spotless, we could withstand the damage of such an inflammatory accusation. In that context, given the (literal and metaphorical) forensic digging that was done, Lucy Letby has proved to be remarkably clean.