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jackolantern

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If you are a raging serial killer you aren't likely to give a shit how the parents feel , you have murdered their pride and joy already. If she's innocent why would she plead guilty. I never believed she would plead guilty there's no benefit it's a whole life order and a serial killer isn't likely to care about their victims families.
Legit. If she is guilty, why do people think she'd give a fuck about reducing the families pain? She would have already murdered their babies, you can't get worse than that. I think we can all say with 100% in that scenario, she isn't someone who gives a shit about empathy or she wouldn't have killed their children.
 
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MmmB777

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The fact that so many of the deaths were twins/triplets kind of makes me think its less coincidence too. Like if those babies shared non detected health concerns with their sibling, it would make sense for them to both be unwell. I feel the 'it's just too many to be innocent' would carry more weight if it were non related babies, but that's just me.
Or maybe she thought people would explain away the deaths due to them being twins 🤷‍♀️
I personally think the latter - shocker ha! I think @Tofino pointed out two sets of babies from multiples died in the same way, one with air one with insulin in two separate sets of multiples. Now we might not like statistics alone but fucking hell the chances of that not being a deliberate act are so so so tiny. I don’t think that’s opinion I think that would be statistically fact- it’s extremely extremely unlikely isn’t it. My opinion is that as each babies case is heard it will be overwhelmingly difficult to explain the similarities, coincidences and chances that this could all happen without intent. x
 
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pencilpen

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The same argument being that the unit was crap and they had a higher than average death rate beyond the ones she's accused of? Doesn't seem to be a minor point tbh. But anyway this threads boring now those set on guilty just attack those applying some logic to stuff and so the cycle continues.
 
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crumpets2

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It’s really quite unsettling all these staff involved remember how unusual the skin discolouration was
 
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I’ve been guilty from day one based on my medically and legally trained “gut feeling” 😂
I’m totally open minded for that to change and really love seeing everyone’s input and Interruptions.
what I’ve seen so far is strengthing my initial view I hope at the end we have a clear/ beyond reasonable doubt timeline of events that show LL to be guilty of these crimes and no stone left unturned to be anyone else / negligent failings.
 
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Haveyouanywool

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The idea of pleading guilty at an early time to get a lighter sentence wouldn’t be relevant here as she is almost certainly going to get a whole life order (used to be called a whole life tariff) which would mean she is ineligible for ever being released.

Completely different case, but Wayne Couzens more than likely pleaded guilty in the hope he would get a life sentence with a release date, rather than a whole life order. It didn’t pay off but I would imagine he was advised to do that. But going back to Lucy’s case, she wouldn’t gain anything by entering an early guilty plea. So if she’s guilty she may as well have a go at being found not guilty.
Exactly. I don’t see any real relevance in her pleading not guilty. We’re just speculating on the reasons.
I’m saying guilty, just incase anyone hadn’t noticed!
It’s not because I’ve seen sensationalist news headlines as I haven’t. I’ve only just started following the case so haven’t formed an opinion from that.
I probably feel this way because I’ve worked in various healthcare settings, NHS, private, charity funded and all the different areas have similar problems. Underfunding, staff shortages, bank cover requirements, bullying, mistakes, poor polices, staff/relatives disputes even what some might call negligence. Sad to say, we’re all human.
I’ve also seen very dedicated Nurses and Doctors, the majority, who do their best at all times. That’s not to say, even with the best of intentions, errors in judgment can’t be made.
This is something very different though, in my opinion. It’s deliberate and cruel and unexplained, even if ‘only’ the insulin poisoning 100% proves this at this point.
I can’t categorically state she’s guilty presently but I’d hate to see someone who is, potentially, this cruel get off.
 
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slingo16

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As a man (assuming most of you on here are ladiesssss 😏) I’ve personally found no relevance in her “sweet pretty” appearance, I think being pretty does actually fit being a serial killer, it’s the old hiding in plain site thing that is very common and something she’d have to do, obviously serial killers have no choice in how they look, and that’s why I think it’s pretty irrelevant to me, also in my experience with women I’ve actually found the pretty ones tend to be batshit crazy lol. For me personally she’s not that attractive but she’s not ugly either, she’s very ‘plain’ imo (I myself am no oil painting)

just to clarify my opinion might not be the opinion held by all men. But just thought I’d give a view from my testosterone fuelled brain
 
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Daisydunn15

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Where I worked permanent staff could work ‘bank’ or extra shifts. You could put your name on the ‘bank’ pool as a permanent member of staff. Very rarely they brought in Agency (not permanent) staff to work what we called ‘bank’ shifts. Like ‘she’s working a bank shift (extra) but she’s agency’.
Agency staff do get paid a lot, and then the employing organisation has to pay the agency too. Very expensive.
They cost a fortune! We would avoid agency unless we were on our knees, we would sometimes rather work on reduced staff than use agency. We've had some agency staff who barely spoke a word of English which is so dangerous on a mental health ward because they couldn't interact with the patients at all. Also I had to send an agency support worker home because he fell asleep on eyesight obs while a kid had a ligature round their neck! So lack of agency doesn't equal decent staffing, sometimes it's just more bloody work.
 
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struggs123

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We've talked about this before but I still stand by if I genuinely believed a nurse was harming babies I'd do anything to try and stop it, barricade the room, shout in the halls till someone listened if needs be. Just saying it's a difficult culture or what can you do isn't good enough. Yes it may be hard, bloody awful infact but this is the lives of babies on the line here?
He had suspicions but no evidence though, he'd be the one removed from the ward perhaps even his post if he did that. Have seen it a few times myself, people raise concerns about x and they're not taken seriously, they are dismissed as being bullies, and the person who reported is driven out. Its a big, big, big problem in many settings and part of the reason people leave in droves- I left myself because I tried to fight the system and make it better and safer for patients and colleagues but its impossible to be honest. I have no idea of course what the culture was like there or how often and to who he reported, but it sounds like he is the same doctor who pushed for her to move shifts so assuming he didn't just say alright I won't bother. Especially given his level at the time for it to get anywhere it would have relied on support from his superiors which it seems he didn't have. Sad all round.
 
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Windowtothewall

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Do we know if the rash that’s been described is consistent with air embolus?

Everybody involved say they have only ever seen it at this hospital. i would think something never before seen would be extremely exclusive to certain conditions. If it can be linked to air embolus, Then you would more than likely be able to rule out the defences causes of death in any of the air embolus charges that a witness saw this rash.
Yes, both the other medical experts Dr Dewey and Dr Bohin confirmed it/

"Mr Johnson said both Dr Evans and Dr Bohin concluded Child B had been "sabotaged" by having air injected into her circulation via an intravenous line. Both concluded that the strange skin discolouration could only be explained by air in the bloodstream"
 
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Stiltoncheese

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Re: Dr Jayaram. It hasn't said what channels he went through to raise his suspicions though and he is still only giving evidence on baby A and B at the moment which are the first suspected cases. We have no idea how many times he had raised concerns at that stage or since then as it hasnt been reported on. It's a huge jump to blame him when we have no idea at this stage what he did or didn't do. Hopefully that will be revealed as we go further into the evidence during the trial.

You also need evidence and in fairness, if it took the police a few years and 3 arrests to get this past CPS threshold then I would say they've really had to fight to find the evidence to back up the allegations. Therefore, how much power did he really have to take it further if senior managers shot it down?

As a side note, I wonder why a nurse witness wouldn't be named for legal reasons? I get someone being a minor, or the anonymity for fsmily and the babies involved, but its quite unusual for an adult witness to not be named
 
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MmmB777

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But to me it doesn’t matter what he suspected, as the outcome was the same. Like whether he thought she was a murderer or incompetent, he realised that babies were dying and he didn’t take it further.

Honestly cannot imagine being one of the parents (especially of the babies later on in the case) and hearing that there was chances to stop your baby dying.
I would just say if I’m allowed to share my opinion - this is the worst thing you could ever have to admit and in a court of law, in front of the babies parents. I should have done more. Absolutely anything would be preferable to this, any mistakes, any failings, staff shortages. Any idea that the docs are working with each other to remember mottling retrospectively to fit LL for things or because they’ve been influenced to think so is just absolutely blown out the water for me personally. They’re saying we knew something was odd, we knew things were unusual, we weren’t listened to but we should have done more. Heartbreaking all round!
 
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Tofino

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I’ve not seen anyone saying he’s lying? But I may have missed that.

What I am seeing is a lot of people defending someone who’s been professionally negligent and failed to do their job- and those same people somehow asking everyone to be angry at the accused (who’s yet to be found guilty) but not to be angry at someone who’s admitted wrongdoing?

Imagine being told to be angry at her but simultaneously not be angry at him? You can be angry at both of them!!! Why shouldn’t people be angry at him? He admitted to not doing his job properly!
Yeah Slingo was saying him raising concerns wasn’t plausible, and asked me where I thought him raising concerns would fit in the timeline.

What I’ve seen is some individuals defending and justify Lucy’s behaviour on various bits of evidence - who is the one on trial for murder remember - but then outraged at the one witness who has testified he suspected her (I totally agree he didn’t do enough and people can be angry about that). I’m certainly not saying don’t be angry at him. I just don’t know how people can only be angry at him and defend her, or justify her actions.

She was the one that just dismissed the 3 June baby deaths in a message to her colleague who raised how odd it was with her. If you don’t think she’s guilty of murder then didn’t she fail in her job just as much as he did?
 
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jackolantern

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The only reason I could think of to plead guilty (if she is) was to avoid her mum and dad hearing all the gory details and if there's iron clad evidence at trial. They obviously believe she's innocent and she's very close to them.
Even that's a horrific thought. Imagine being her parents now. I can't even begin to think what they must be going through. Do they truly believe she's innocent? Who really knows.
 
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