Lucy Letby’s lawyer: Anger must be redirected if she’s found innocent

 

Lucy Letby’s lawyer: Anger must be redirected if she’s found innocent

Mark McDonald likened the serial killer’s trial to that of another nurse, where there were ‘serious concerns’ about the handling of evidence

In 2006, Benjamin Geen was found guilty of murdering two patients by injecting them with lethal doses of drugs
In 2006, Benjamin Geen was found guilty of murdering two patients by injecting them with lethal doses of drugs
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A public inquiry examining events at the Countess of Chester Hospital is due to begin in Liverpool on Tuesday.

The parents of babies E and F, as they must be known for legal reasons, have watched with dismay as calls to release Letby have turned from a few disparate voices on social media into a full attack on the justice system involving leading politicians.

Letby was found to have murdered Baby E by causing an internal bleed and giving a lethal injection of air. Baby F was poisoned with insulin but survived. Both parents attended the ten-month trial.

The support for Letby from people who did not sit through the trial — and in their view do not understand the full evidence — has left them appalled.

“This whole traumatic experience made us question humanity,” the parents of babies E and F told The Sunday Times. “Why are people going out of their way to support a serial killer of babies?”

They said that the prosecution case put together “individual bricks” of evidence, adding: “Once they were all put together the wall of evidence was overwhelming. To take each brick out separately is simply taking evidence out of context.

“The spread of lies and misinformation is deeply distressing and makes us sick to our cores. We just want some peace to grieve, knowing the person who caused so much agony is where she belongs.”
A court artist’s drawing of Letby being cross-examined during her trial, in June this year
A court artist’s drawing of Letby being cross-examined during her trial, in June this year
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Wes Streeting, the health secretary, became the first cabinet member to comment on the escalating controversy over Letby’s convictions on Sunday.

He told LBC: “It is crass and insensitive to be waging a public campaign in this way. Because we can debate it, you and I, listeners can debate it, we can read the newspapers, [but] we’re not the Criminal Cases Review [Commission]. We have an independent judiciary in this country, I think we have a fair and successful independent judiciary in this country.”

Appealing to the public to let the judicial process “run its course”, Streeting added: “It is for the courts to decide on the basis of evidence and I would just remind people that we always presume innocence until people have been found guilty.

“Lucy Letby has been found guilty, on multiple counts, of serious crimes with multiple whole life sentences.

“And until the courts find a reason to suggest otherwise, we should continue to regard her as a convicted killer serving multiple life sentences, delivering justice for those families going through unimaginable and intolerable grief.”

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