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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

You can't have watched many documentaries, tbf

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.

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

The consultant, RJ, committed perjury.

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 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.

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.

I can see you have a measured sort of approach.

Sorry? I was agreeing with you.

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

She is white, blonde, young and slim.

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

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.

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.

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?