You may not have caught last night’s Channel 5 documentary, Lucy Letby: Scapegoat? so I urge you to watch it on catch-up as soon as possible.
This young nurse – Lucy is still only 36 – is serving 15 whole-life orders, having been convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others.
Six of the babies that Lucy supposedly murdered had previously undergone post-mortem examinations at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital by experienced pathologists. In five cases, the pathologist found one or more ‘natural’ causes of death, while the sixth was ‘unascertained’ but not ‘unnatural’.
That should have been the end of
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