The investigation of Lucy Letby on Netflix

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Anyone watched it yet? It’s a really excellent documentary with loads of footage of her police interviews.

You see the police asking her questions about those ‘confession’ notes.

I won’t put spoilers in the OP but I’d love to hear what others made of her responses.

Mid way through I thought she’s 💯 guilty but by the end I’m really not sure. A lot points to her being innocent.

I feel for the parents of those babies so much, the uncertainty must be horrendous 😞

She wrote texts to her work colleagues on the day Zoe died. She says she is very upset and can’t stop crying! She’s now saying she can’t remember anything about it. Absolute lies.

Depends when, really. Years before? You wouldn't necessarily remember, no.

LL acted the sulky serial killer.

But no one was murdered.

There’s no direct quote from him about that. Feel free to link the relevant interview.

I am aware of his record, not that is relevant, and I don’t know how better I would have handled her case, because I’m not a barrister. Are you suggesting that someone of his experience never fucks up?

If i thought that much about a person to where I am doing facebook searches on there family, writing about them in my diary and messaging work colleagues about them i doubt I would forget completely about their whole existence 3 years later.

Excellent comments. I am a criminal defence barrister and listened to a podcast day by day reporting the daily evidence at the trials. I’ve also read the court of appeal judgments. My view is there is no evidence of foul play and this is a huge miscarriage of justice caused by a hospital trying to cover errors made when it was under resourced, a police investigation that was focused too much on proving a theory from a so called expert and not investigating widely, a defence team that made huge tactical errors and prosecution counsel clouded by the horror of the allegations.

Well I don’t believe her and neither did the jury.

I’m a criminal prosecution barrister and believe she’s guilty. 🤔

I’ve never known a lot about it so have watched with interest. Not far through, but having 250 ordered confidential documents that she took home in her pockets accidentally? Come on now.

Oh you would in that short time

Lucy hasn’t waived legal privilege and until she does so her new legal team will not know why Ben Myers didn’t call any of the expert witnesses he had for her defence.

I believe her conviction to be unsafe but this whole ordeal has become a media circus and Cheshire Police selling their story to the highest bidder is frankly disgusting behaviour.

Why would they have raised any issues in the first place if they knew it was structural?

didn’t this all happened because consultants blew the whistle repeatedly?

Plus lying about not having a shredder or if she genuinely didn't know she had one in the house buy one they're like a tenner or take them back to the hospital to be destroyed don't store them in a file and order them.

But why would she have 250 documents and lie that she brought them home in her pockets?

Indeed. 250 times.

@berlinbaby2025 Do you think barristers generally break client confidentiality to give interviews?

he would be fine to give one of course, if Letby agreed to release him from the client privilege relationship. But she doesn’t, and for good reason. In fact she continued to instruct him as her barrister for the second case that was brought against her too, even after he supposedly did such a bad job of defending her the first time around.

Dewi Evans is a strange man who comes across as a bit of a narcissist. I listened to John Sweeney's podcast which detailed another case he was involved in which raises serious questions about the man. (Robbie Powell).

He is not an expert in the area of neonatal care. He is an arrogant man who read some papers and presented them to the court as an expert. The man who wrote the paper says Evans didn't understand what he'd written.

It's not a safe conviction. All terribly sad for the parents. Just trauma after trauma.

That is something Liz Hull and others have got wrong. Lucy Letby doesn't need to waive privilege to discuss this with her new legal team though they keep suggesting she does.

Rare to be a “prosecution barrister” - people who prosecute usually also defend. I only defend. I mention my occupation as I thought it may be relevant to show some level of my understanding of criminal jury trials of which I’ve been involved in hundreds. Interested to read what has convinced you. Did you follow the trial closely?

She also wrote she's a murderer and nobody will ever know whats she done. Why would anyone write that unless they are a murderer and thinks shes getting away with it. Its an odd thing to write.

@Barbie222 Let me spell it out for you - you don’t KNOW why he didn’t call hardly any defence witnesses, only a handful of people do. So, you’re speculating.

Your not dosed up on anti depressants - we can’t know that

also she was arrested 3 times so perhaps it was just the once in pjs and that’s what they were arguing over

No but her new legal team can’t discuss anything with her previous defence team. There may be a very good reason he didn’t call any of his expert witnesses (and one of them was in court expecting to be called).

Concerns were expressed but the hospital satisfied themselves there were non-criminal reasons for all the deaths. Only when Dr Dewi Evans contacted the police himself to say he was an expert and he could help did he then come up with the theory the babies had been murdered he then set about working out how each baby had been murdered and it’s his untested theories that led to this.

I don’t think it happened quite like that

if that were the case then no one has to make anything up to cover themselves at work - the medical staff did not change their minds and didn’t agree with the apology to LL the NHS made - it’s doesn’t stack up that she’s been scapegoated as there was no need to If the hospital like you say was satisfied