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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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freakingscared · 06/02/2026 18:18

Aquarius91 · 04/02/2026 15:01

The “poor woman” was convicted in court of murdering multiple children. Sick of internet detectives who know nothing spouting this crap. Think of the poor parents of those babies who have to read this.

Come on , can you have 100% certainty she did it ? Can you imagine what is going on in her mind if she didn’t ?
And if you were one of those parents wouldn’t you want to know the truth ?

nomas · 06/02/2026 19:21

TakeALookAtTheseSwatches · 06/02/2026 15:36

Then why do people keep banging on about them as if they actually mean anything?

So if someone tells me something is not true, am I not supposed to correct them?

Why do you not say that to the people defending LL about the handover sheets?

Your bias is clear.

nomas · 06/02/2026 19:24

Pricelessadvice · 06/02/2026 16:04

If she’d only taken the sheets of the babies who died, you’d have more of argument about them being a trophy. The reality is she had notes from lots of babies- many who survived and went home
with their parents.

It was a really tenuous link, the notes thing. It really doesn’t give us any clues into anything other than she was a bit of a paper hoarder.

I don’t think we know that. We know that she targeted particular babies, not all babies.

Who knows when keeping handover notes tipped into looking for her next victim.

TakeALookAtTheseSwatches · 06/02/2026 19:44

nomas · 06/02/2026 19:21

So if someone tells me something is not true, am I not supposed to correct them?

Why do you not say that to the people defending LL about the handover sheets?

Your bias is clear.

What do you mean about something that isn't true? What isn't true?

AnxietySloth · 06/02/2026 22:46

freakingscared · 06/02/2026 18:18

Come on , can you have 100% certainty she did it ? Can you imagine what is going on in her mind if she didn’t ?
And if you were one of those parents wouldn’t you want to know the truth ?

I'm 100% certain she did it. And the parents have made it clear that they know they have the truth and they don't want it raked up again on their behalf, so don't bring them into it.

MistressoftheDarkSide · 06/02/2026 22:48

AnxietySloth · 06/02/2026 22:46

I'm 100% certain she did it. And the parents have made it clear that they know they have the truth and they don't want it raked up again on their behalf, so don't bring them into it.

You were there and saw her do it all then I presume?

freakingscared · 06/02/2026 22:53

AnxietySloth · 06/02/2026 22:46

I'm 100% certain she did it. And the parents have made it clear that they know they have the truth and they don't want it raked up again on their behalf, so don't bring them into it.

No they haven’t , you are making things up !

Firefly1987 · 06/02/2026 22:53

gininthejar · 06/02/2026 09:54

I started watching it but didn’t even last 10 minutes. I could feel the way it was going. I recommend listening to the podcast Lucy Letby: Was There Ever A Crime?

Right so because it was starting to show her guilt you switched off?! That just sums up this case doesn't it. People don't want to hear the very strong argument for her guilt so just put there hands over their ears. Maybe examine why you can't keep an open mind about this case?

freakingscared · 06/02/2026 22:54

Firefly1987 · 06/02/2026 22:53

Right so because it was starting to show her guilt you switched off?! That just sums up this case doesn't it. People don't want to hear the very strong argument for her guilt so just put there hands over their ears. Maybe examine why you can't keep an open mind about this case?

I actually think the documentary shows the opposite

MistressoftheDarkSide · 06/02/2026 22:58

Firefly1987 · 06/02/2026 22:53

Right so because it was starting to show her guilt you switched off?! That just sums up this case doesn't it. People don't want to hear the very strong argument for her guilt so just put there hands over their ears. Maybe examine why you can't keep an open mind about this case?

Oh the irony..... asking people to "keep an open mind" yet claiming the case is cut and dried..... and her guilt is in no way in doubt despite scores of medical professionals publicly questioning it? Delicious double standards....

Mundaywinner · 06/02/2026 23:21

I just watched it, (it was very intrusive and uncomfortable to watch ) . After watching one of the other documentaries I was quite convinced of her innocence, but I don’t know now.
For most points I could accept the reasonable explanations , even the notes she wrote I thought could be justified under the circumstances. But the handover sheets I just couldn’t get my head around . Why would she take them home? And if she was a scatty person who just accidentally took them in her uniform, why would they be chronologically organised ?

Firefly1987 · 06/02/2026 23:30

@Mundaywinner a lot of the ones under her bed were about babies in the trial as well. They were obviously very important to her.

freakingscared · 06/02/2026 23:53

I saw this and looked to see if it’s a real testimony

A brilliant post from the amazing courageous ex midwife Victoria Rixon

🚨 “I watched the Lucy Letby documentary. We all should.

Not to be told what to think—but to analyse the wider picture.

So much of it resonated with me:

1️⃣ The profession is cliquey.

2️⃣ I took handover sheets home by accident many times. I recently found some in a file and burned them.

3️⃣ I found an old diary containing patient information from years ago and handed it back to community.

4️⃣ I have questioned whether my own practice may have inadvertently harmed women or babies — exactly what I wrote to the NMC.

5️⃣ You are guided by doctors. You administer and act on their instructions.

6️⃣ You trust policy, guidelines, and “evidence” — even when it doesn’t always fit the patient in front of you.

7️⃣ I have asked myself repeatedly: did I cause harm? Did I cause a vitamin K injury? Is someone ill or dead because of me?

8️⃣ Speaking up about systemic issues makes you a target.

9️⃣ I raised concerns in a minuted meeting that insulin was being kept in ward fridges without locks.

That concern was never recorded.

🔟 The system creates a vortex of harm, hidden behind the language of policy, guidelines, and evidence.

Nurses administer care under rules and under doctors’ orders.

They are caregivers — not the ones giving the orders.

They sit at the bottom of the hierarchy in healthcare delivery.

1️⃣1️⃣ I have just witnessed a midwife who scanned a baby at 20 weeks never seeing them again and lose her job following the birth and death at 34 weeks.

No one else has been investigated.

A doctor also scanned the baby — and it was this doctor who ordered the midwife’s suspension.

1️⃣2️⃣ I have been publicly accused of causing a baby’s death while completely innocent — and I have the records.

1️⃣3️⃣ If someone asked me today to recall “Baby A” from 2018, I doubt I could recall it at all.

1️⃣4️⃣ Your name appears on countless records — checking a drug, an IV, a dose. That does not mean you killed someone.

1️⃣5️⃣ After hours of questioning where the narrative is being shaped around you, I would also say “no comment”.

We only see what legacy media wants us to see.

Lucy Letby was cooperative for years.

Her reaction on arrest — “But I didn’t do anything” — the shock, the disbelief — said everything to me. They relied on her silence, not telling the world like I did which might have saved her having public backing. They abused her.

My intuition, shaped by lived experience, tells me this is about systems, hierarchy, and scapegoating — not simple stories of individual evil.

And remember this:

In March 2024, a director phoned me at home and told me whistleblowers go missing.

They wanted me silenced.

Kali SpellKate ShemiraniDave CartlandAJ Mission ConsciousnessAjit ChambersJustean WinterRosie Jake Roger Livermore Tess Lovely Kris Brooks Melanie Kate Peter Wilson Diane Lockhart Jay Darkmoore Author” 🚨

kkloo · 06/02/2026 23:54

Mundaywinner · 06/02/2026 23:21

I just watched it, (it was very intrusive and uncomfortable to watch ) . After watching one of the other documentaries I was quite convinced of her innocence, but I don’t know now.
For most points I could accept the reasonable explanations , even the notes she wrote I thought could be justified under the circumstances. But the handover sheets I just couldn’t get my head around . Why would she take them home? And if she was a scatty person who just accidentally took them in her uniform, why would they be chronologically organised ?

She could easily have just been putting them in the box in the order which she found them, in which case they would be chronologically organised by default.

Enrichetta · 07/02/2026 00:16

My intuition, shaped by lived experience, tells me this is about systems, hierarchy, and scapegoating — not simple stories of individual evil.

you have just put into words what I’ve been suspecting all along

Firefly1987 · 07/02/2026 00:42

There is zero evidence for any scapegoating theory though. I don't think the doctors barely even noticed her early on. They just simply started to realise she was there every time a sudden collapse happened. Which is very unfortunate for her if innocent, but not a scapegoating.

Oftenaddled · 07/02/2026 00:48

Firefly1987 · 07/02/2026 00:42

There is zero evidence for any scapegoating theory though. I don't think the doctors barely even noticed her early on. They just simply started to realise she was there every time a sudden collapse happened. Which is very unfortunate for her if innocent, but not a scapegoating.

I'm not entirely comfortable with the term scapegoating either, because to me that can sound planned and deliberate. I think it was groupthink and the human tendency to exaggerate patterns.

FrippEnos · 07/02/2026 01:04

Firefly1987 · 06/02/2026 23:30

@Mundaywinner a lot of the ones under her bed were about babies in the trial as well. They were obviously very important to her.

Do you have a link for this?
And even if true its a bit of a leap.

LiveToTell · 07/02/2026 01:12

I found the AI generated interviewees really irritating. Why? Just don’t use anyone if they want to remain anonymous, or an actor. I was so distracted by the AI people.

Oftenaddled · 07/02/2026 01:18

FrippEnos · 07/02/2026 01:04

Do you have a link for this?
And even if true its a bit of a leap.

They were, but they would be, quite naturally. Let's say she's bringing home one sheet a week, on average - one every three or four shifts. Most of the babies on the indictment sheet were there for several days

The sheets each have multiple babies names - presumably every baby in the nursery she was working in, if not the ward. So pretty much every baby on the ICU nursery is going to be named on the sheets. (Babies A, C and D and possibly E, who weren't, E not clear, had very short stays).

Mundaywinner · 07/02/2026 01:18

kkloo · 06/02/2026 23:54

She could easily have just been putting them in the box in the order which she found them, in which case they would be chronologically organised by default.

I did consider this, and would have liked to know if they were arranged with most recent laid at the top of the box.

Hardhaton12 · 07/02/2026 01:21

I have found the Lucy letby case a difficult one. I do understand why it has mixed opinion on innocent /guikty.

I followed it from the very beginning and I remember at the time feeling not many people were discussing it - not as big as it should have been.

I have probably changed my mind 100 times on it but I have never been able to say I think she done it without any reasonable doubt.

my daughter was in nicu and then paeds ward for a very long time ( did not come home until she was nearly 2 ) some of the things they talk about ( TPN / insulin ) we have been on for over a decade at home now to !
The smoking gun I found was the insulin case where by that was case that was 100 percent proof the babies were murdered - this for me was actually the one that made question whether she was innocent. I read many time about that shift and it being a TPN bag the lack of physical evidence regarding it didn’t sit right with me.

bags being discarded is yes common practice after using a bag unless - something goes wrong during the process of that TPN being hung.

I remember being in the neonates when the “tpn infection scandal “ happened and babies across London came down sick who has received TPN in 3 different hospitals and it turned out their bags were contaminated with a bacteria before ever entering the wards.
I still struggle to this day to work out how she would have had the means to add insulin to the tpn bags without it being noticed they are closed systems by the time they get to the wards.

kkloo · 07/02/2026 01:23

Mundaywinner · 07/02/2026 01:18

I did consider this, and would have liked to know if they were arranged with most recent laid at the top of the box.

Oh yes I see, yes you're right that it wasn't specified what direction they were going chronologically.

Hardhaton12 · 07/02/2026 01:28

Sorry I should add - in the case of baby F when his glucose levels initially dropped they changed the TPN bag and the line which indicates suspicion that it could have been his TPN so protocol to throw away and discard the PN bag should not have been implemented.

FrippEnos · 07/02/2026 01:45

Oftenaddled · 07/02/2026 01:18

They were, but they would be, quite naturally. Let's say she's bringing home one sheet a week, on average - one every three or four shifts. Most of the babies on the indictment sheet were there for several days

The sheets each have multiple babies names - presumably every baby in the nursery she was working in, if not the ward. So pretty much every baby on the ICU nursery is going to be named on the sheets. (Babies A, C and D and possibly E, who weren't, E not clear, had very short stays).

This is what I mean by saying that its a bit of a leap that these cases where the ones that were important to her.

Its another poster giving half the information to suit their narrative.

When the truth is as you have stated it.

It also when you think about it shows why LL's defence team maynot have used their own experts.