That article says Letby was one of two "fully qualified neonatal nurses" and that she "was the most qualified nurse" on the unit. Is this true? Doesn't sound right to me.
Love how Dorries has pointed out that the judge described Letby as hardworking, professional, confident etc, conveniently missing out that he said OUTWARDLY she was these things.![]()
I don't see how. She was a band 5, they would have had band 6s and 7s who were more experienced than Letby.That article says Letby was one of two "fully qualified neonatal nurses" and that she "was the most qualified nurse" on the unit. Is this true? Doesn't sound right to me.
Love how Dorries has pointed out that the judge described Letby as hardworking, professional, confident etc, conveniently missing out that he said OUTWARDLY she was these things.![]()
Thank you. No mention of 257 handover sheets moving from house to house, or her FB searches, or insulation poisonings, or texting when she should have been caring for babies.Here’s the article https://archive.ph/yij68
Sorry "insulin" and no mention of gaslighting her colleagues with ideas relating to the babies problems or altering records to distance herself from events.Thank you. No mention of 257 handover sheets moving from house to house, or her FB searches, or insulation poisonings, or texting when she should have been caring for babies.
Even Letby announcing over the hospital PA system that she has just tampered with an ET tube and injected a couple of bags with insulin wouldn’t be enough for these people.How much more evidence do people need?
Exactly right. A nurse at the bedside holding a syringe and needle or being in close proximity to a patient’s ET tube is the norm in a hospital setting, even if it did take her a minute or two to carry out her acts of sabotage. It’s not like she was striding around dragging an axe behind her and no one noticed.It's a whole load of balls. She has jumped on the bandwagon hasn't she. Sure the unit was downgraded but most of Letbys attacks were on babies old enough to have still been at the CoC after the downgrade. How long dies she think it takes to shoot air down a baby's NG tube? Probably a second or two to empty a syringe. That's all. So easy to not be seen. And she was caught in the act twice by Dr Jayaram and Baby Es mum. Also don't bring the east Kent hospitals baby scandal into this, those babies died of negligence not murder. There wasn't one evil nurse out to get the babies in east kent
Sorry, just read your post after posting something similar. I completely agree with you.I also find the comments about injecting the air “without being noticed” and “would this really be a serial killers preferred method” frustrating because when you apply logic it falls apart, method: absolutely yes, when looking at health care serial killers it might well be. People hear “serial killer” and think of a “bloody crime scene” or scenes of outwardly obvious violence. When healthcare serial killers don’t conform to that.
Going unnoticed: Often their methods are silent, disguised as genuine medical treatment so go unnoticed/unquestioned…which is how they manage to go undetected for long periods of time.
If I was in that hospital and walked in on LL injecting into a line, I wouldn’t question it - she is a nurse and I am not. Likewise, it probably wasn’t questioned much by her colleagues until they started to think the unthinkable. And I also imagine they initially thought it was bad nursing before they reached the conclusion she was doing it on purpose because how horrendous is it that someone (even outside a nursing profession) could do such a thing.
We had this discussion at the time of the original trial. The other deaths on the unit which she may/may not have been present for were not those covered in the indictment therefore were not (as far as reporting was concerned) covered in the trial.Richard Gill claims that "“There were more deaths that happened when she wasn’t there. […] What you should do is compare the rates of deaths.”
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How internet sleuths are already trying to prove Lucy Letby innocent
As the former nurse begins her whole life sentence, a campaign to help her appeal her conviction has sparked outragewww.telegraph.co.uk
but while she was in it's employ wasn't letby on duty for all the deaths that occurred on the ward?
there seems to be some confusion over this
so we don't know how many baby deaths there were on the unit when letby was not there?We had this discussion at the time of the original trial. The other deaths on the unit which she may/may not have been present for were not those covered in the indictment therefore were not (as far as reporting was concerned) covered in the trial.
this was likely because these deaths had a medical explanation as sadly, yes there can be complications with premature babies which sadly can result in death. For example, if one of these babies entered into cardiac arrest straight after birth which was deemed as a direct consequence to being born early, of course letby wasn’t responsible for that whether she was there or not.
The defence will have had access to ALL the deaths on the unit and will have had the opportunity to bring those up, should they have offered any assistance to her defence. If they did bring them up and they were all medically explainable (which is what I can gather that they are, unlike those in the indictment) then all prosecution had to do was to state that - then that evidence has no baring on letby’s case.
The fact that the entire trial was NOT based on statistics is exactly why the argument to include all the deaths on the unit is a stupid one. The only “statistics” they used was the chart to show she was the only nurse there for all of the MEDICALLY UNEXPLANABLE deaths/events
She might have been there for all we know. The chart only covered the babies in the trial. Those babies that were investigated because their deaths couldn't be explained. The other babies may well have had medically explainable deaths, or just not enough evidence to point a finger at Letby. No one cam categorically say she wasn't there as those babies weren't included in the trial.so we don't know how many baby deaths there were on the unit when letby was not there?
I don’t off the top of my head know but there is that information available as to how many deaths there were on the unit during the time she was working there. It’s in one of the hospital reports - any OG members please feel free to assist.so we don't know how many baby deaths there were on the unit when letby was not there?