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This is why I think Lucy Letby is guilty – and you should too

There’s a new circus in town and its butterfly-themed banners are emblazoned with the name of a nurse called Lucy Letby. They could see how she had moved so deftly in the shadows, so often protected by the trust of colleagues who made the fatal assumption that she cared as much for the babies on the unit as they did Letby’s very capable barrister, Ben Myers KC, questioned whether Jayaram’s account was “truthful” and alleged he had exaggerated the situation in the court proceedings simply to make things worse for his client and thus make the charges stick. It is to the parents of her victims, all of them still trying to grieve for their lost babies, that our minds must turn His brothers, both viable for all their diminutive size, had already died by Letby’s hand and the colleague sensed that this baby, too, would be in “mortal danger” from the nurse if he remained in Chester. open image in gallery ‘These parents who have experienced the deepest loss are resolute in their condemnation of Letby’ Suddenly, for all the woolliness of the case as it unfolded, they could see how she had moved so deftly in the shadows, so often protected by the trust of colleagues who made the fatal assumption that she cared as much for the babies on the unit as they did. open image in gallery A police tent seen outside Lucy Letby’s home after her arrest The pro-Letby campaign has been described by Peter Skelton KC, who represents some of the families of her victims as “grossly offensive and distressing”.

The Independent

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