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To agree with the Guardian about the Netflix coverage of the Lucy letby case?

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justwandered · 04/02/2026 11:49

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/feb/04/the-investigation-of-lucy-letby-review-netflix?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]]

I honestly don’t think I’ve come across a show in such poor taste before and I am no stranger to stories about murder and the like.

It crosses a huge line in terms of stripping individuals of their dignity.

I don’t plan on watching it but when I turned Netflix on the other night to put a TV show on for my children there it was - horrid and completely unnecessary.

The Investigation of Lucy Letby review – this sensationalist take isn’t what this awful case needs

The broad-brush, emotive telling of the questions around the neonatal nurse’s conviction uses arrest footage that her parents have said ‘would likely kill us’ if they watched. Did her mother’s howl of distress need to be broadcast?

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/feb/04/the-investigation-of-lucy-letby-review-netflix?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other%5D%5D

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Theonlywayicanloveyou · 04/02/2026 17:05

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 04/02/2026 15:04

Evidence has come out since which casts doubt on her previous convictions. I think she deserves a retrial but she’s been denied this twice.

She’s been denied because the evidence DOES NOT warrant it. Random detectives do not have access to it. The police and judges involved do.

HappyFace2025 · 04/02/2026 17:11

mjhx · 04/02/2026 16:28

Definitely wouldn't trust the justice system. Pedophile and sex offenders get a slap on the wrist and drug dealers behind bars for years.
No faith in the justice system. Fails many many many people.

And today the Palestine Action group were found not guilty by a jury for breaking a police woman's spine. I wouldn't trust any jury any longer. Our justice system is fucked.

QOrion · 04/02/2026 17:14

curiositykilledthiscat · 04/02/2026 17:02

Having said that, it’s undeniable that a lot of the sympathy for Lucy Letby is because she reminds the Great (white) British public of their daughters, nieces, granddaughters and goddaughters.

Such a silly and reductive thing to say. You don’t know this, it’s just your opinion.

It IS just my opinion but I just can’t agree that a fat, unattractive, older black woman with a pronounced African accent would attract this much support. People would much more readily accept that there’d been a trial and she’d been found guilty. Case closed.

It probably would have been the same for other people who don’t have all the right attributes. So, a fat, unattractive, abrasive older white woman from a working class background, without articulate and motivated family support probably also wouldn’t have anywhere near this much attention and support.

fartotheleftside · 04/02/2026 17:16

justwandered · 04/02/2026 16:54

I can’t think of any other documentary that has featured footage like the footage I’ve seen.

I think the way it is presented - as entertainment - is highly distasteful, especially as regardless as to what our own opinions might be there is a huge question mark relating to her guilt, and lies have been proven to be told.

Have you not watched any other true crime documentaries recently? They all use police bodycam footage now

Lolights · 04/02/2026 17:19

QOrion · 04/02/2026 16:55

Absolutely!

I have no idea if Lucy Letby is guilty of murder. If her crimes are incompetence and/or negligence, in combination with systemic failures then I want her murder sentence to be quashed and for her to face appropriate consequences, not a murder sentence.

Having said that, it’s undeniable that a lot of the sympathy for Lucy Letby is because she reminds the Great (white) British public of their daughters, nieces, granddaughters and goddaughters. That’s what got so many people, professionals and laypeople, reviewing the case, unpaid, in their spare time.

I knew people would be surprised that a nice-looking young woman like her was found to be guilty of murder. I just didn’t expect people to actually write that down. But they did. On Mumsnet threads immediately after she was convicted, people wrote how she didn’t look the sort. Which just goes to show how superficial much of the public are.

A person who kills multiple newborn babies is clearly a psychopath. Beautiful people can’t be psychopaths? I’m just glad Letby wasn’t being shadowed by a portly, older ethnic minority student nurse or the murders would probably have been attributed to the student nurse instead.

I’m just glad Letby wasn’t being shadowed by a portly, older ethnic minority student nurse or the murders would probably have been attributed to the student nurse instead.

Wow I didn’t think of this, you’re so right though. That’s exactly what would’ve happened.

Aquarius91 · 04/02/2026 17:20

QOrion · 04/02/2026 17:14

It IS just my opinion but I just can’t agree that a fat, unattractive, older black woman with a pronounced African accent would attract this much support. People would much more readily accept that there’d been a trial and she’d been found guilty. Case closed.

It probably would have been the same for other people who don’t have all the right attributes. So, a fat, unattractive, abrasive older white woman from a working class background, without articulate and motivated family support probably also wouldn’t have anywhere near this much attention and support.

Actually, it’s been long reported that juries are biased towards good looking defendants, who are found innocent more often or given lighter sentences. There was a study on the matter in 2010z surely that applies here.

Cola32 · 04/02/2026 17:21

Hoardasurass · 04/02/2026 16:08

Atleast 1 of the expert witnesses is in no way an expert and its come out that the card data that was relied on was at best inaccurate and 1 of the drs has changed their testimony multiple times.
The convictions are dubious even without the new medical evidence.
The conviction is unsafe and she should be retired as whilst I suspect she's guilty there's just to many questions about the evidence at her trial

I do not know about Lucy Letby .

But from my own personal experience of court medical experts, and hearing one lie blatantly on the witness stand and throw out crackpot theories, I am now seriously sceptical of them.

People should absolutely not blindly appeal to authority. We seem to assume that miscarriages of justice never happen. No doctor wants to blamed for allowing a child serial killer free, either.

Regardless of her guilt or not, there will also be other staff at the hospital who have failed in their duty to protect to some degree.

QOrion · 04/02/2026 17:22

Actually,@Aquarius91 I didn’t think I was saying anything groundbreaking or particularly controversial.

CommonlyKnownAs · 04/02/2026 17:24

Aquarius91 · 04/02/2026 16:00

Absolute joke considering the conspiracy theorists are out in force e here who’s primary information source is probably TikTok and you tube. How arrogant to assume you know more than the expert witnesses and jury who have actually heard the evidence.
Am I saying with 100% certainty there wasn’t a miscarriage of justice? Of course not, I’m not that arrogant. But I trust the justice system in this country and believe that posting stuff like this when there are bereaved parents potentially reading is absolutely crass.

But you clearly think you know more than the expert panel convened by Dr Shoo Lee, so the less you have to say about arrogance the better.

It is pretty fuckwitted to try and how very dare you this. I don't know whether Letby did it or not, but there are some incredibly obvious problems with the way this has been handled.

BoxingHare · 04/02/2026 17:24

I trust the justice system in this country

That's quite foolish considering the massive miscarriages of justice that sometimes happen.

Many times down to the police wanting to convict someone and making the evidence fit.

Damnd · 04/02/2026 17:26

justwandered · 04/02/2026 16:54

I can’t think of any other documentary that has featured footage like the footage I’ve seen.

I think the way it is presented - as entertainment - is highly distasteful, especially as regardless as to what our own opinions might be there is a huge question mark relating to her guilt, and lies have been proven to be told.

You can't have watched many documentaries, tbf

Cola32 · 04/02/2026 17:27

BoxingHare · 04/02/2026 17:24

I trust the justice system in this country

That's quite foolish considering the massive miscarriages of justice that sometimes happen.

Many times down to the police wanting to convict someone and making the evidence fit.

Yes. People are naive, until it’s them or someone they know on the receiving end (and nobody believes you because they trust the police etc.).

Not commenting on LL specifically but come on people.

justwandered · 04/02/2026 17:28

Aquarius91 · 04/02/2026 17:20

Actually, it’s been long reported that juries are biased towards good looking defendants, who are found innocent more often or given lighter sentences. There was a study on the matter in 2010z surely that applies here.

Are we looking at a different woman? She’s completely ordinary looking. Anyway, none of this is the point.

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BoxingHare · 04/02/2026 17:28

The consultant, RJ, committed perjury.

buffyajp · 04/02/2026 17:29

justwandered · 04/02/2026 11:49

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/feb/04/the-investigation-of-lucy-letby-review-netflix?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other]]

I honestly don’t think I’ve come across a show in such poor taste before and I am no stranger to stories about murder and the like.

It crosses a huge line in terms of stripping individuals of their dignity.

I don’t plan on watching it but when I turned Netflix on the other night to put a TV show on for my children there it was - horrid and completely unnecessary.

I’m personally far more horrified by what the evil cow did to those poor babies. And yes. She is absolutely guilty. The only victims in this case are the babies and there families.

justwandered · 04/02/2026 17:29

Damnd · 04/02/2026 17:26

You can't have watched many documentaries, tbf

I haven’t watched this one.

I have watched a number of documentaries. Animal behaviour, child poverty, alcoholics recovering spring to mind.

Footage like this barely passes as a documentary.

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CommonlyKnownAs · 04/02/2026 17:29

Yes, if there's one thing that is certain here, it's that the UK doesn't do a good enough job at speedily identifying and remedying miscarriages of justice. I'm not saying one necessarily happened here, but anyone who trusts that our systems would promptly correct it if one had can't have heard of the Post Office or Andrew Malkinson.

justwandered · 04/02/2026 17:29

buffyajp · 04/02/2026 17:29

I’m personally far more horrified by what the evil cow did to those poor babies. And yes. She is absolutely guilty. The only victims in this case are the babies and there families.

I can see you have a measured sort of approach.

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Aquarius91 · 04/02/2026 17:32

QOrion · 04/02/2026 17:22

Actually,@Aquarius91 I didn’t think I was saying anything groundbreaking or particularly controversial.

Sorry? I was agreeing with you.

QOrion · 04/02/2026 17:33

justwandered · 04/02/2026 17:28

Are we looking at a different woman? She’s completely ordinary looking. Anyway, none of this is the point.

Come on! She may not be a great beauty but pre-prison Lucy Letby was definitely attractive in a nice-girl-next-door way.

Aquarius91 · 04/02/2026 17:33

justwandered · 04/02/2026 17:28

Are we looking at a different woman? She’s completely ordinary looking. Anyway, none of this is the point.

She is white, blonde, young and slim.

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 04/02/2026 17:34

JoyfulSpring · 04/02/2026 15:11

The beginning couple of minutes with her mother wailing is extremely hard to watch. It's actually done the police no favours as it's humanised Lucy even more in my view.

@Aquarius91 good to see you've got all your information of the case from the daily fail. There's a lot more to it if you have a read.

Yeah, we should all be reading the entirely balanced views of The Guardian journos, eh 😂

CommonlyKnownAs · 04/02/2026 17:34

While we're speculating about the impact of demographic factors, one wonders if the lying male consultants would've got off so scot free if they were women.

Idleplum · 04/02/2026 17:35

Aquarius91 · 04/02/2026 16:00

Absolute joke considering the conspiracy theorists are out in force e here who’s primary information source is probably TikTok and you tube. How arrogant to assume you know more than the expert witnesses and jury who have actually heard the evidence.
Am I saying with 100% certainty there wasn’t a miscarriage of justice? Of course not, I’m not that arrogant. But I trust the justice system in this country and believe that posting stuff like this when there are bereaved parents potentially reading is absolutely crass.

Your comment is so arrogant and patronising. Someone doesn’t blindly agree with you so they must be a conspiracy theory idiot from TikTok.

You would have to have slept through 2025 to not realise a lot of prominent professionals are putting themselves out there to say the conviction was unsafe for all manor of reasons. These are people actively working in the respective professions and would have a lot to lose by inserting themselves into some like this on a whim.

You are very naive to put a blanket trust on a highly floored justice system.

Let’s hope you never end up on the wrong side of it.

ApplebyArrows · 04/02/2026 17:35

How exactly is this legal? A private individual wouldn't be allowed to film other people in their house without their consent. Obviously the rules are a bit different for the police, but why are they (apparently) allowed to share this footage without a legitimate policing purpose?