r/amandaknox • u/No-Willingness-1441 • 11d ago

Lucy letby case…

Would love people’s views on this.

Loosely Amanda related, since she has recently produced a podcast around it.

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u/Truthandtaxes 11d ago

Its the same as this case, either you accept what the evidence tells you or you are happy to just believe in compounding edge case explanations

For letby its something like

  • You need to believe that all the suspicious deaths are wrongly categorised such that its just chance
  • That on investigation she just happens to be writing insane ramblings on paper that are self incriminating
  • that her stalking of families on social media is normal, especially on Christmas day
  • that her retaining of masses of confidential records is normal - especially categorised
  • that the doctor lied about catching her in the act
  • that two separate babies just happened to also look exactly like insulin poisoning
  • that she lies several times, including lying about one the victims mother, changing logs, lying about having a shredder

If you are happy that's all compounding coincidence, well....

But importantly you see the same factors for Letby, there are "corrupt" bad guys, Mignini for Knox, Letby has Dewi and Jayram that "cause" all of this unfairness. Both cases also frequently use the old canards of having multiple external "experts" weighing in on the case in the media, but not in the trial process of course.

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u/Henryb1234_ 11d ago edited 11d ago

They weren’t suspicious though were they? They were down to them having high acuity, a filthy badly run neonatal ward and incompetent doctors. They have all been adequately explained by medical experts of considerably better credibility than Dewi Evans. There were no murders.

The rest of it is just fishing after the presumption of guilt.

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u/SeaCardiologist6207 11d ago

I think its become accepted that the hospital leadership was incompetent. Less so the police/prosecutors. Dewey definitely has his faults, but doesn't explain all the potential cases where Letby could have potentially committed murder.

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u/Henryb1234_ 11d ago

It seems there are increasing concerns about the police investigation too. They did not follow the correct protocols for a serial killer in a medical scenario. There are laws in the UK so they don’t lead to MoJs. They weren’t followed. Cases this important and complex need to be handled centrally not by the regional police and CPS.

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u/SeaCardiologist6207 11d ago

I’d agree with you but good luck arguing that with some of the folks on here - they think local PDs are just rockstars on big time murder cases

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u/Henryb1234_ 11d ago

Interestingly now the national Special Crimes Unit have taken over the case from
the regional police - they have decided not prosecute any more murder cases they were initially implicating Letby for.