Lenny Rider
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[News] Lucy Letby
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Soton Seagull
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It's all quite uncomfortable either way. Private Eye has been going in to it in depth and whole case seems to be based on iffy expert evidence which is circumstantial.
Crispy Ambulance
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Private Eye has been doing this sort of stuff brilliantly for years.
I’ve read a couple of quite lengthy reports/reviews on the case, it’s deeply troubling.
- Oct 17, 2008
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Am I right in thinking, all of the evidence was circumstantial? But I’m sure I read something about some very incriminating diaries Letby kept in her home.
chip
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I think that the "diaries" where part of therapy she was receiving at that time, possibly to do with the number of babies that died.
chip
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‘I am evil I did this’: Lucy Letby’s so-called confessions were written on advice of counsellors
Prosecutors used densely written Post-its to build case against nurse, but she was told to write down her feelings to cope with extreme stress, sources say
www.theguardian.com
- Oct 17, 2008
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Hmmmmmmmmm.‘I am evil I did this’: Lucy Letby’s so-called confessions were written on advice of counsellors
Prosecutors used densely written Post-its to build case against nurse, but she was told to write down her feelings to cope with extreme stress, sources say
Greg Bobkin
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Based on no more than doing a bit of reading in Private Eye and elsewhere, I think it's more likely to be the latter than the former.
beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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a while back i saw Letby trending, it was additional deaths around her shifts being investigated. following week trending, its all a massive miscarriage and the experts are dodgy. hmmm.
I think we have a legal system that is adversarial in its basis - rather than being focussed on investigation and finding the truth, its about one side proving the other wrong by weight of argument. This one is a particularly troubling case.
- Jan 25, 2025
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They weren’t diaries, they were notes made as part of a therapy session. The one which the prosecution highlighted was words to the effect of “I did this, I am evil” but this ignored others which essentially said the opposite. Hardly a full and frank confession.
It seems that a combination of flawed expert testimony, circumstantial evidence and an inept defence team may have done for her in the trial. That’s not definitive proof of innocence though, I’d assume a retrial may be needed.
It’s what’s technically known as a “mess”.
ROSM
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Whatever happens, this is an example of why we don't have the death penalty any longer.
Gazwag
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It must be really hard on the jury as well, they obviously believed she was guilty based on the evidence and the persuasion of the prosecutors but without undeniable evidence "she did it" v "no i didn't" is the worst possible trial for normal people to have to decide.
Withdean South Stand
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And Axel Rudakubana is the counterweight.
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ROSM
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So as long as we get it 50% right eh!
Algernon
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How does that work then?
The sooner we get an A.I. jury the better.