"Is Lucy Letby innocent? Or, to put it another way, is there now enough reasonable doubt to declare her conviction unsafe? This documentary's answer to the second question could hardly be clearer: yes. Letby was declared to be the biggest child serial killer in modern Britain, though she could yet go down in history as the subject of our era's most serious miscarriage of justice. Public opinion, media mythology and the law turn as slowly as an oil tanker."
"Letby, a former neonatal nurse at Chester hospital who was convicted in 2023 of seven murders of infants and the attempted murder of seven more, was at the centre of a trial that focused on the sensational handwritten Post-it notes recovered from her house in which she appeared to confess her guilt, and which surely swayed the jury. She claimed these were merely imaginary cathartic exercises encouraged by a counsellor (it is a fault of this film that it does not more closely examine the process of this counselling.)"
Lucy Letby, a former neonatal nurse at Chester Hospital, was convicted in 2023 of seven infant murders and seven attempted murders. Key evidence included handwritten Post-it notes found at her home that appeared to confess and likely influenced the jury. She and her legal team claim the notes were cathartic, imaginary exercises encouraged during counselling. Barrister Mark McDonald is pursuing a referral to the Criminal Cases Review Commission and a potential Court of Appeal rehearing. Several medical experts and commentators express belief that the conviction may be unsafe, while prosecution expert testimony was pivotal in securing the verdict.
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