Lucy Letby’s scribbled notes

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At times when I’m feeling acutely distressed, it’s not at all unusual for me to scribble all sorts of dreadful thoughts down on paper eg die die die, hate hate hate, I hate you, I hate you, what’s the point of you, my fault, stupid me, etc etc etc, usually scribbling them all out so nobody can see what I’ve written. I’m pretty sure this is quite a common response to acute mental distress. I agree with this article that it feels very surprising that Letby’s scribblings were used as evidence of a ‘confession’.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/sep/03/i-am-evil-i-did-this-lucy-letbys-so-called-confessions-were-written-on-advice-of-counsellors

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Michael Hall the expert that the defence decided not to call to give evidence you mean?

I am pretty sure they know way more than you.

Theres really no point in continuing this conversation 🤷🏼‍♀️

And there was tons and tons of evidence against her, why does this evidence not matter to you

because none of the “evidence” makes any sense. The air embolism theory. The insulin “poisoning”. The multiple different and obscure ways she was supposed to have murdered these babies. The witness statements. The chart. The handover notes. The diary notes. The key card evidence. The Facebook searches. None of it is even remotely persuasive.

Feel like I am arguing with a flat earther now. Time to say good night.

Exactly it’s laboriously explaining the obvious to someone as if they are stupid. Men typically do it to women, but women can obviously do this too.

Lets not forget her weird insistence she needed to look after a baby in room one if she'd lost one because at the other hospital she worked at they gave her another dying baby after she'd lost one earlier. I mean WTF is that about. She had to be in room 1 all the time, how many instances were there she was found in there when she was not supposed to be? It's not normal to have to be told to go look after the babies you're assigned to by supervisors and to stop going in room 1. Not to mention to be told to leave bereaved parents alone that another colleague is supporting and you are not needed. Bloody grief vulture! Can people honestly say all of her behaviour is totally normal?! She also told a colleague she'd seen her fair share (of deaths or collapses) at the previous hospital! I mean what are the chances these deaths just follow her wherever she goes?!

Court is alot like theatre in high profile cases. It is adversarial and the stakes for winning and losing are high.

I'll wager you've never come up against medical experts so secure in dogma that they will argue black is white to maintain their standing and reputation. I have. Obviously I'm mad because I have relevant experience and am not in thrall to the system.

In the area of child protection, the zeal to protect and punish can have devastating consequences for the truth. See Sally Clarke, Angela Cannings and the Webster case for starters.

just like all the preeminent scientists and journalists who have expressed the same in newspapers right across the political spectrum , in endless articles that have been going on for weeks now? 👍🏻

If it’s not persuasive why did she admit herself someone had added the insulin? Just not her.

Yep. The same Professor Michael Hall who just wrote a letter to the BMJ highlighting concerns about the CoA handling of medical evidence.

If his opinion had any merit to it whatsoever, he would have been called to testify in court. He wasn't. Think about it.

Exactly. Anyone can do it. Particularly in these gender fluid times.

Because she’s not a doctor, expert or scientist. She was on the stand being told by “experts” that this was what happened and it was the only explanation. She wasn’t in a position to challenge that. She didn’t have another explanation. How could and why would she? The whole thing had nothing to do with her and she didn’t know anything about it.

Oh dear.

She is a violator, a creep, a callous predator. She is just the worst. The mugshot shows who she is. These monsters drop their facade when they are caught and the mask is down. You can see who she really is in that picture.

Because it was presented to her as an irrefutable fact, and to argue against it would have damaged her credibility. She would have been instructed by her legal team to respond as she did because to do anything else would be considered arrogant or delusional.

You know nothing, dear.

Oh bore off
Whenever her colleagues mentioned that something isn’t right she’d be straight in there quick as anything with “oh it happens” blah blah blah, quick to deter any conversation that may lead to the alarm being raised
Yet she accepts someone’s been poisoning insulin bags, just wasn’t her, none of it was her the fact she’s so obviously involved is just a massive coincidence. Sure Jan

Wow. I think this emotive language speaks for itself as to how you are reasoning about this case.

Okay so if she’s innocent, why was she so obsessed with being around these babies in Room 1. Why was she so insistent on immediately treating another poorly child.

Why would someone completely innocent write things like 'i did this' and 'i killed them on purpose'? I can barely imagine why a guilty person would write that and then just leave it strewn about their home when they were under investigation for multiple murders.
It's really hard to think of a reason why that wouldn't be used in evidence. She wasn't mentally ill. There was no diagnosis of anything that would make someone write that they killed when they didn't?

Exactly. This is not a good nurse by any stretch of the imagination, this is a nurse who is at best way too involved in wanting particular babies over others and getting very angry when she doesn't get what she wants. What other nurse does that? I'm sure some have favourite patients but you don't go dictating to your supervisor you only want certain ones or to be in a certain room all the time. It's so so unprofessional even if you believe she's innocent.

I mean, it IS a little batshit crazy to do that, though… I’ve had terrible days and I’ve never felt the need or desire or impulse to grab my journal and write about death and hate. Never.

Has it though ?

There are reports of other baby deaths and collapses around the same time, which weren’t investigated because Lucy wasn’t on shift at the time.
It seems they cherry picked the deaths which occurred when she was on shift.
And she did work overtime a lot so it figures she’d be present at a lot of the incidents.

I think the conviction was unsafe.

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If she wasn't the young blonde with the innocent sounding sing-song voice not one of you would have been so obsessed with doubting the outcome of that trial.

My thoughts exactly…