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Tofino

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A very damning report that would have caused the parents to raise concerns and questions about the care and treatment of their children. Further pressure to identify the main cause. Then the announcement the hospital manager leaving! Mmmm! Just how resistant were all staff to accepting their collectivity practice was impaired on a number of occasions. A nurse group was set up as a recommendation shortly after the report. The purpose of this was to monitor and discuss the Nurses opportunities to be part of the unit decision making, this tells me anyway that there was difficulties with the medics/consultants! Then you look at some of the social media posts. From a consultant who clearly likes to express his views. I remember years ago a nurse I knew was disciplined for putting up a post about how hard the shift was after a drowning of a man at sea. She never named anyone but this was highly inappropriate

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So the woman who is on trial for murder has her Facebook searches of the dead babies families even years later normalised as something many HCPs do, and a note where she wrote she killed them on purpose was excused as anguish and despair, but now the consultant who is a witness and tweets about his day is what? Not credible? So must be part of the cover up to get Lucy convicted of murder?

Make it make sense 🤯
 
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Tofino

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Some outlets are definitely still reporting 7 murders/10 attempted. Crazy!
That’s the number of babies, not the number of charges. 7 babies murdered, 10 attempted with murder. The extra attempts were on the same babies (a couple of babies have 3 attempts).

it’s been 22 charges (7 murder, 15 attempted murder) since the first week of the trial when it was really hush hush all week with ‘legal arguments’. Then just before the trial got going they announced the extra attempted murder charges.
 
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StatusWoe

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I don't think her demeanour in court is that relevant. I imagine being the focus of a trial like this would be terrifying enough to provoke all sorts of odd-looking responses.

Guilty or not, I keep thinking about those numbers and it's a massive amount of deaths/collapses. Clearly something went seriously wrong. One way of looking at it is to say 'well that shows that there were loads of failings on that ward' - but from another perspective, the nurses did manage to resuscitate a lot of critically ill babies while their efforts were possibly being sabotaged by their colleague. If they hadn't responded the way they did, we'd be looking at an even higher death count.
 
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slingo16

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Agreed. I would be fucking furious as a parent if a doctor suspected a nurse of harming babies (even if not to the extent of murder) was told no and just went 'alrighty then'.
I’m sure it’s the same doctor in the case of baby k who said he was worried about her being in the room alone with the babies that tells me he suspected foul play not just mistakes. I can’t buy into the idea he was told to not worry about it and then did nothing
 
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slingo16

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I honestly thought she had changed her plea this morning to guilty. If she has done this and she is going NG for her own sake to give it a try she is more fucked up than we thought, to put those parents through this for 6 months. I was firmly guilty but that’s the only thing swaying me a tiny bit to NG because surely she can’t be that fucked up to do not guilty if she’s guilty and yes I know it’s a chance of a lighter sentence or getting off but still, the most natural thing in the world is mothers and their babies and whatever’s gone on in that NICU they’ve been let down.
I see both sides to this if you knew there was compelling evidence then why even bother.

but if she killed 7 babies she already doesn’t care about the parents, serial killers do tend to enjoy the trial process in a lot of cases
 
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Milktray

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I hope everyone is having a good weekend? I've just created my autumn hot chocolate station!

This is a tough case but regardless of whether people think she's guilty or innocent, I think it's fair to say that we all just want justice for those families.
 
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veevee04

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My point was that if she did enter a guilty plea now it would save those poor parents 6 months of torture. I think anyway not 100% how it works clearly 🙈
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.
 
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Daisydunn15

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Oh so the doctor was in the room when the baby collapsed, attending to another child, there were people milling about due to handover and another nurse had the incubator in view. I'm really thinking NG for this one. Whether it triggered something is yet to be seen but if the others go this way I don't know how a guilty plea can be found.
 
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jackolantern

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I don't understand what anyone thinks the NHS would have to gain from framing someone for murder sooner than admitting they failed. Either way they look bad but one is accidental and one is letting a baby murderer continue their spree? Like why would that be preferable?
 
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Stiltoncheese

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Just caught up on lunch break. I have voted undecided on all threads so far and still voting undecided. Just too early for me to draw any conclusions yet.

This chap is quite interesting though. I presume he is saying that it's possible for air to get in there in other ways, but not to the extent that he saw it in Baby A, which implies it was deliberate (along with another baby in this trial) and he assessed that against many other cases to draw his conclusion.

Wonder if the defence have their own witness who will provide their own study/analysis to contradict this one, or just rely in him saying its possible it could have been one of the other ways even if the stats are improbable.
 
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jhm9rhs

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My assumption is that they do believe she was involved with more of the deaths, but have prosecuted on the cases where they felt there was the strongest chance of conviction. I presume that's why Operation Hummingbird is slated to continue for three more years. They can't bring those cases up in court. I could be wrong. Fwiw, I started without much opinion, found the prosecution opening very compelling, and am now just waiting to hear more, as I can't see a conviction based on what we have heard in the limited information we've had so far.
 
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slingo16

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He was told not to make a fuss so he didn’t? Really? He thought someone was murdering babies and he did as he was told?
 
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Emmelina Ball

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Am I right in saying the doctor noticed the rash, could describe it and recalls going to get a camera yet STILL didn't document it? Are we meant to believe him? I'm going to get jumped for this, but he seems dodgy. I'm not up for an argument, that's just instinct and not at all factual.

The nurses seem woolly on it. Nothing was recorded at the time, which is forgivable, though absolutely shit practice and now they can't say where the mottling was . Surely more on this will come out after we hear about the next baby with the mottling, though at the moment the actual clinical staff don't seem sure. It's better to say I can't remember , surely?
Yea something really stinks about it all. I just can’t comprehend how someone didn’t document it, didn’t feel relevant to include it in police statement but is certain enough about remembering it 7 years later to say about it in court?! Strange memory. If they spot any clinical signs or symptoms it is their job to record it. Even if it was something they’d seen before. I’m still not decided if she’s guilty or not guilty, there are a lot of unusual coincidences but there are also a lot of things that I am certain that hospital wasn’t following good practice. Could be a case of those babies were failed by LL and the hospital or only the hospital, but my god my heart aches for those parents and families having to listen to all this.
 
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Tofino

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I think we’ll hear this more and more of this narrative as time goes on 😓 I feel so sorry for them all and for the parents hearing this, that it could have been stopped. It must be awful for them to live with. Heads at the top will absolutely roll after this if they’ve not already!


Oh gosh so many acronyms aren’t there… I think it is that one, sounds familiar! I don’t know if it’s in the wiki yet. Sorry not very helpful. It was linked a fair while back.
I haven’t put any of the reports into the wiki only because they have not yet been used in court. I’m happy to discuss but my thinking was to keep the wiki purely trial based only to avoid it getting into speculation / biases etc. plus it’s hard enough to keep it organised with trial stuff.
 
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slingo16

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Pretty much. Which is why the defence will try and discredit the experts to put in reasonable doubt. If we only get limited reporting it will be hard for us to decide but hopefully it’s clearer for the jury.

i think if the prosecution have five expert witnesses all saying the same that will strengthen the case and it will be hard for the defence to discredit all of them.
Scary to think the jurors have to make a decision on something that even experts disagree on
 
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EllsBellsWells

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I am personally very worried about the holes/gaps in testimonies we’ve seen so far. Particularly how much seems to have only come to light recently, and as some of you have already said, how much is completely missing from documents/notes at the time.

This missing info has the potential to completely cast huge doubt on most/all of what these witnesses are saying? Most of this must surely be down to how the ward was being run/understaffing? Like they just did not have time to write proper notes, go get cameras etc. but for Baby A this seems to be a running theme with a lot of what they’re saying so far.

If it’s like this the whole way through then the coincidences are going to quickly become repeated failure to properly note and record then escalate things!! Which won’t be enough to convict her on if she’s guilty.
 
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MmmB777

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The thing is the radiologist has admitted there's a chance it could have occurred naturally with line placement. That's where the statistics come in it's a nightmare of a trial to digest. I feel terribly sorry for the jury to have to decide this.
I could be wrong and I think the reporting has been poor today but I think he’s saying air is possible in that way but his opinion is that this can’t be what happened here and that’s to do with volume and placement. He’s very clear that he doesn’t think it’s from that, similar can be seen in car crashes (force), overwhelming infection (for which there’d be lots of medical evidence but there isn’t - it’s why they played so hard on the line and temp though) and that the only time he’s seen anything just like this is another baby in this case. And that implies it’s administered - a large enough volume put in the baby on purpose with force - highly unlikely the kind that would be accidental through a line. I’d imagine force and amount is then going to have a massive impact on whether a baby could survive this kind of impact. Hence why you will see some discrepancy in babies surviving or passing away - and of course how quickly and effective treatment is. So again if treatment isn’t effective - it’s more likely again that it’s a large amount and used with force that then cannot be rectified.
 
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jackolantern

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If you liken it to a pickpocket (not remotely similar crimes, but similar because they are "stealth" crimes) - a pickpocket operates best in a crowd. Hide in plain sight when people are less likely to notice or question.
Exactly. If she was on her own it would be obvious that it was her, as we've all discussed before. But in a room full of people? Hiding right under your nose is the best disguise.
 
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