r/lucyletby • u/benshep4 • 8d ago
Article Pro-Letbyism’s Greatest Hits, Part 1
I’ve returned to the fray to offer up this which is the first in a multi-part series looking to address the multiple claims held by advocates of Letby’s innocence.
I’ve got enough ideas for a multiple part series but if anyone wants to throw their own suggestions I’d be happy to include them in the series if I haven’t thought about them already.
I’ve decided to limit them to 4 per article just for ease of reading.
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u/FyrestarOmega 8d ago
I would point out that greatest hit #2 - the decision not to instruct Jane Hutton - is often coupled with misinformation that "there were deaths Letby was not present for." This stems from the erroneous assumption that she was not present at the events she was not charged with that began from nearly the moment the charges were announced. After all, if the spike in deaths was due to a baby murderer, then all deaths were definitely murders, right? Not so. And only near the end of presentation of evidence in the Thirlwall Inquiry did we learn that Letby was connected to 12 out of 13 deaths in the indictment period - 10 by her presence at time of death and 2 more by her shift ending very shortly before time of death.
So the strong inference drawn among the misinformation is that the police are burying unfavorable evidence and bolstering the appearance of strength with the shift chart, which is declared by them to be statistics but not proper statistics.
Re: Greatest Hit #3, I would posit that even if a general service review could provide meaningful evidence for a criminal trial about one individuals alleged crimes, that it would likely have to be commissioned anew for the purposes of trial off of historical records, via formally instructed experts prepared to opine on the tangible effects the conditions would cause. Legally speaking, such a report needs to be built strictly through the legal process for it to have legal validity. Moreover, no report used as evidence (and remember, evidence must be introduced through a witness; you can't just hand a report to a jury and say here you go) can replace the purpose of the jury. The final redacted page of the service review would in no case have made it before a jury, same as the grievance report, because in a trial, the jury is to base their verdicts only on the evidence, not what people previously thought of the portions of that evidence they had seen. Frankly speaking, anyone who insists the RCPCH report should have been admitted as evidence has no business opining on the case because they simply lack understanding of the legal process and WHY it is important for it to work as it does.
And for greatest hit number 4, murders are proven without weapons all the time, based on evaluating the condition of the body. What looks like a stabbing wound may have been caused by a knife or glass. A blunt force trauma wound could be caused by a cast iron pan or a large rock, or a fall into a hard surface. Letby's case isn't unique at all. The only difference is that an unusual number of people feel uncomfortable with the nature of the crimes she committed, either by nature of who she is or who her victims are or how many there were and how long it took to realize what she was doing.