Today was another interesting day I thought.
The pj's arrest thing - if they were banging on her door at 6am and arresting her, they would literally enter the house and verbally arrest her as soon as through the door. So she was likely to have been in her pjs/nightie/whatever. Removing her from the house isn't the actual arrest. Then it appears that it's been reported that her nightie was on under her deluxe lounge suit (wtf?) I hope that it came across more clearly in court because the way it was reported seems ridiculous to me. It's semantics and if I was on the stand, personally I would have been calling BNE out about the act of the arrest and leaving the house being different things. But then I am argumentative even when giving oral evidence and personally I can't stand a legal professional being inaccurate in court.
So I hope that the jury didn't see this as BNE being a dick swinger and it came off in the right way, which IMO from the reporting it doesn't. I think the social folder stuff also doesn't come across well for BNE and BM made good and valid points about that.
The draft sympathy note - do we actually know that it was written before the babies died? This is something it would have been good to have had better reporting. Potentially it is huge but if it was written after their deaths then its less impactful as the surviving triplet would have been out of the unit.
The Dr NN thing - were they or were they not shagging? Surely if they were there would have been evidence on her phone in the form of messages, something more concrete? Again, potentially I think this could be a bit diluting to the prosecutions case. Presumably if there was evidence that they were shagging BNE would have made it more of a mic drop moment if he is implying that she committed some of the murders/attacks to gain the attention of Dr NN?
I feel concerned that focussing on some of the smaller almost petty little things can detract from the more powerful evidence and this creates reasonable doubt for some of the jury. I think it's a professional mistake to focus on things that can be taken the wrong way by a jury when they add little to the real matter at hand.
I am so firmly in the guilty camp now after some real mic drop moments over last few weeks that the thought of reasonable doubt being handed to the jury on the plate worries me.
I still don't get the why either. I think this is a very different case to almost any other murder/serial killer case. To me, LL as a murderer makes no sense from everything I've seen and read. By that I don't mean she is innocent, I mean the "why" is just unfathomable to me.
It’s not about whether they were shagging or if she was wearing her pjs, it’s about her lying and being manipulative on the stand.
her actual evidence (reported by Dan O’Donohue) was she was taken away in her pyjamas.
This is a lie, she was allowed to put a tracksuit on over the top or was already wearing it, and so it seems she is trying to manipulate the jury into how badly treated she was at the time of her arrest.
she has also massively down played her relationship with Dr NN. Forgot to mention the trip to London during her defence. It doesn’t matter if they were shagging or not, we don’t need evidence of that. Their relationship was totally inappropriate for a married man. Meals, meet ups in various towns, a second trip to London planned but cancelled, love hearts on messages.
With the sympathy message, yes it’s my understanding it was written for their birthday a year later. The third baby was alive and away from Lucy. But who writes a sympathy message for a baby that’s still alive? It’s sick!!! They are saying she included the third baby in the sympathy message because it had always been her intention to kill all 3.
The proof of her lying and manipulating over things that are relatively minor, what you call petty things, are actually very strong for the prosecution. She can’t even be honest about really simple things. Why should the jury believe her word over anything. She has zero credibility.