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New Lucy Letby details

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Mrsdoyler · 16/10/2024 20:51

Did you see today in the news that LucyLetby originally failed her nursing training.

Reason: Lack of empathy

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kkloo · 21/10/2024 16:04

OrangeGreens · 21/10/2024 08:56

In the interests of a balanced discussion, sharing this new article: BBC

The new evidence seen by Panorama shows a blood test from a third baby being cared for by Letby in November 2015 also recorded very high levels of insulin and low levels of C-peptide.

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Medical records seen by Panorama show how quickly the boy became poorly after Letby came on duty. A blood test taken at 06:56 showed the infant had a normal blood sugar level of three millimoles per litre (mmol/L).

Letby started her shift at 08:00, and by 13:54 his blood sugar level had plummeted to one mmol/L – a dangerously low level, and a strong indication the baby had too much insulin.

The boy’s blood sugar level remained low throughout the nurse’s shift and he only recovered after she went off duty at 20:00.

Dewi Evans and the police already knew about the 3rd insulin case before the trial yet she wasn't charged with it so it would be very interesting to know why that case was different.

kkloo · 21/10/2024 16:43

GossIsAGit · 21/10/2024 08:04

Thanks. This quotation from the article bears repeating:

“...it is essential that the circumstances should, to a moral certainty, actually exclude every hypothesis but the one proposed to be proved: hence results the rule in criminal cases that the coincidence of circumstances tending to indicate guilt, however strong and numerous they may be, avails nothing unless the corpus delicti, the fact that the crime has actually been committed, be first established...”
Starkie on Evidence, 3rd ed., (1842)

I just don’t feel the judge communicated this principle to the jury.

Yes that's a major issue that I have with all of this.

There is no proof that any crimes have been committed.

If this was ruled to be a miscarriage of justice we know that they're not going to go out and look for the other 'murderer'.

Quitelikeit · 21/10/2024 16:44

@kkloo people get away with murder because there simply is no realistic prospect of a conviction

This is not infrequent CPS reject all sorts through lack of evidence even though things are obvious

MissMoneyFairy · 21/10/2024 16:47

PrettyFlyforaMaiTai · 21/10/2024 13:21

“In one case, from November 2012, a baby boy collapsed and water was subsequently discovered in his breathing tube – a highly irregular occurrence. The clinical notes confirm that the nurse looking after him was Letby.”

How the fuck do you get water in a breathing tube?!

We don't know what breathing tube part they are talking about, is it the oxygen tubing, the et tube. If humidifying oxygen is given the tubing runs with a connection to a bottle of sterile water.

kkloo · 21/10/2024 16:49

Quitelikeit · 21/10/2024 16:44

@kkloo people get away with murder because there simply is no realistic prospect of a conviction

This is not infrequent CPS reject all sorts through lack of evidence even though things are obvious

Yes I know that but yet the main piece of evidence for the 2 other insulin cases was the test results, and the third baby also had those high test results.

Firefly1987 · 21/10/2024 19:24

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cevywl7jmm3o

Panorama has also discovered that potentially life-threatening incidents involving infants occurred on almost a third of Letby’s 33 shifts while she was training at Liverpool Women's Hospital in 2012 and 2015.

Shocking but not surprising. It's getting increasingly difficult to defend her now isn't it? Can't blame it on the Countess this time. Those handover sheets probably trophies of every single harm she did to a baby, she was absolutely prolific.

OrangeGreens · 21/10/2024 19:38

Firefly1987 · 21/10/2024 19:24

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cevywl7jmm3o

Panorama has also discovered that potentially life-threatening incidents involving infants occurred on almost a third of Letby’s 33 shifts while she was training at Liverpool Women's Hospital in 2012 and 2015.

Shocking but not surprising. It's getting increasingly difficult to defend her now isn't it? Can't blame it on the Countess this time. Those handover sheets probably trophies of every single harm she did to a baby, she was absolutely prolific.

We need to know what the precise definition of a life-threatening incident is here, how many normally occurred on a shift at that time and place, and about any other factors affecting ward performance at that time. Otherwise how is this meaningful information at all?

MistressoftheDarkSide · 21/10/2024 19:40

If that is the case then every person involved with her training and oversight should be fired and prosecuted.

Every time an "unexpected" collapse or death occurs in any hospital, murder should be the first consideration, and an investigation should immediately be carried out. Any nurse or doctor who was the last to interact should be arrested and charged.

No nurse or doctor should ever be allowed to work one on one with any patient.

No one is safe. Ever.

(Yes, deliberately hyperbolic because this whole case is becoming farcical in the extreme.)

Firefly1987 · 21/10/2024 19:54

Oh right so just doubling down then 🙄is it an inability for posters to just admit they were wrong or what?

MistressoftheDarkSide · 21/10/2024 19:57

Firefly1987 · 21/10/2024 19:54

Oh right so just doubling down then 🙄is it an inability for posters to just admit they were wrong or what?

Nothing has been proven. I'm not in a position to be right or wrong. Neither is anybody else.

HazelPlayer · 21/10/2024 19:58

Dramatic · 21/10/2024 08:09

Literally not a single part of this makes her a murderer. You'd have to be clinically insane to think so.

Where did I say any of that "made her a murderer".

You somehow omitted to answer if you'd lbe comfortable for her to look after your newborn ... Funny that.

None of you would.

HazelPlayer · 21/10/2024 20:06

Dramatic · 20/10/2024 19:19

I think the fact that there's still so much debate over her guilt shows how shaky the evidence is.

Nah it shows how many nutters there are, now linked up 24 hrs a day by the internet.

There has never been a time when CT's and amateur "sleuthing" was more virulent.

Quitelikeit · 21/10/2024 20:47

Yes I’d also like to ask you all if you’d put her in charge of looking after your newborn?!

@Mirabai would you?

HollyKnight · 21/10/2024 21:07

Did you see anyone here say she is a good nurse?

Quitelikeit · 21/10/2024 21:10

Well her supporters haven’t actually said either way what they think her nursing skills were like!

HollyKnight · 21/10/2024 21:12

That's because her supporters aren't here.

OrangeGreens · 21/10/2024 21:17

HazelPlayer · 21/10/2024 19:58

Where did I say any of that "made her a murderer".

You somehow omitted to answer if you'd lbe comfortable for her to look after your newborn ... Funny that.

None of you would.

Edited

Of course I wouldn’t because she may be a murderer. She may also not be. And/or she may be massively incompetent.

That’s the whole point - we don’t know.

SassK · 21/10/2024 21:44

I envisage more findings about her conduct, sadly. Meaning that any fresh 'evidence' will serve only to hinder (rather than assist) her new legal team.
I agree with both juries and the three appeal judges - her convictions are safe.
My heart goes out to the families.

Neodymium · 21/10/2024 21:51

I don’t think that you can count the second jury as a way to prove a sound conviction. They were told that she had been convicted previously and could use that in their decision. That means this was not a completely separate unbiased judgement.

regarding what someone said that all the people commenting didn’t sit through the trial
and see all the evidence. Dr Michael Hall DID sit through the whole trial, and did see all the evidence. He is a neonatologist (unlike Dewi Evans who is just a paediatrician) and he also thinks that there is numerous issues with the medical evidence and they way it was presented. He’s written to the bmj about it. He was LL expert witness who the defence decided not to call for some reason. He was just as puzzled as to why he wasn’t called as everyone else.

HazelPlayer · 21/10/2024 22:07

He was just as puzzled as to why he wasn’t called as everyone else.

Who's everyone?

I think most people with a brain could infer why.

So one would presume a supposedly very intelligent & accomplished man could also infer why.

HazelPlayer · 21/10/2024 22:11

That’s the whole point - we don’t know.

Do we not?

Most people, off MN, don't agree with that opinion.

kkloo · 21/10/2024 22:16

@Neodymium
It's also very puzzling why they didn't try to submit evidence from Dr Shoo Lee for the trial and only did so for the appeal.

Quitelikeit · 21/10/2024 22:24

@Neodymium

Dr Hall had an issue with child C

He sat religiously through the whole trial did he?

Where is your proof of that

If you look as to why Dewi wasn’t a Neonatologist you’ll see there’s a very good reason!

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