@HazelPlayer
Miscarriages of justice usually involve systems failures.
The only people who scapegoated her were the doctors.
The police took the case on in good faith as they don’t have the competency to evaluate the science.
But then there were fuck ups - it’s most irregular for persons reporting murder to the police not to form part of the investigation. A true murder investigation should have involved the whole unit - everyone including the doctors even the cleaners. If a man reports his wife has been murdered he’ s not exempt from the enquiry is he? The police were too excited to have landed a real serial killer to notice. This could make them famous. And get them on the telly.
The doctors passed on their dodgy rosta stats and the police didn’t question them, as they’re not very good at stats. I’ve no doubt the doctors know they’re compromised.
At that point a blinded external medical review should have taken place. Medically define what constitutes “incident”, and trawl 2 years of clinical data. Is Hawdon’s report corroborated. What of a forensic review? Then go to the coroner. Open an inquiry. Review the original pathology reports. Exhume bodies. Conduct forensic autopsies.
Define what constitutes “present” - in the building, on shift, in the room. Then map out all doctors and nurses against these incidents and see if there’s any pattern. Given that there are 7 deaths LL was not linked to and there should be roughly 2-5x as many incidents as deaths, see what patterns emerge.
Instead of all this, which probably would have prevented this case from coming to trial the consultants get a lucky break - a totally unscrupulous self serving expert witness, supporter of Roy Meadows - pitched up and offers his services - again irregular - he should have been selected. Nor is he qualified for the role being 15 years retired. He’s happy to act as pathologist, for which he has no training at all, and police investigator and expert witness all rolled into one. And somehow between them they manage to circumvent the coroner altogether.
He’s happy to endorse the bogus air embolism and get some expert witness friends to corroborate, one of whom testified against Angela Cannings - and this convinces police. While I do believe some of the expert witnesses testified in good faith, possibly under the sway of groupthink, I don’t believe that to be true of Evans or Bohin.
The police, Evans, and the CPS work for years scouring for evidence to arrest LL, it takes a long time because, basically there isn’t any. Finally they find a discrepancy between insulin and c peptides and figure a jury probably won’t notice it doesn’t prove anything.
Then you get a prosecution team happy to endorse bad science because, well they’ll get paid either way.
Add in a crap defence with no narrative of what happened, no expert witnesses and foolish endorsement of air embolism and insulin twaddle. I feel for Myers as he did some good work but against a background of a very poor case.
And bingo all the ingredients for a major miscarriage of justice.