The cross has given us so many extra details for each baby in the case. Just think of the details we didn’t get from the expert witness evidence! The reporting at really crucial times was so poor for lots of them. Barely any detail on some expert evidence at all. The jury have heard lots more than us and I still just can’t understand where the doubt lies really. All of these little lies, the paper work and searches are absolutely entwined with her guilt and as bad as they appear but the witness and expert witness accounts will have been hugely compelling. To say there’s reasonable doubt when you’ve had an expert radiologist that has studied 500+ cases of air in children post mortem and they’ve said the air in these babies was more than he had seen on all but a handful and all those had explanations like road traffic accidents. There were extremely unusual amounts of air without there being a solid explanation of how it got there, that it “stands to reason” that the air was administered. There was a globule of air by the IV for baby D. According to the defence, she’s supposed to have died from the sepsis she had all but recovered from and had no soft signs of. There is a huge liver injury that is a match for purposeful harm. There are two babies pumped with synthetic insulin, it doesn’t matter how the blood was held, the insulin is there and there is a very clear medical record of prolonged hypoglycaemia. There are multiple doctors, nurses and parents saying there were rashes. Screaming. Bleeding. How many times have we heard doctors and nurses say they’d never experienced things like it, could find no natural cause. How many texts of disbelief that another baby that was doing well had died. How many problems when the designated nurse took their break or a parent had finally gone to go and get some sleep? How many times have parents been had to have been wrong about the very last moments of their babies short lives? And all the while she has sat there listening knowing full well that she is evil, she’s guilty, she did this.