Lucy Letby

[IT Minion]

Twisted in the head is the only reason. You can’t legislate for that.

We have legislated for that, Murder is illegal.

But perhaps mental health screening and monitoring might help identify other threats. But until you understand why it happened, you can't stop it happening again.

This is the exact same logic FBI profilers followed when they chose to interrogate serial killers.

 

[Munroast]

if she is innocent (and i have no idea) it is quite a frightening thought that we live in a country that a miscarriage of justice on such a monumental scale could happen

And we know these things can happen - look at the post office - and still no one brought to book

 

[blup]

The recent beeb documentary seemed to adopt a slightly more challenging approach to her innocence, but has been forced to retract on the statistical correlations used by the prosecution and at the inquiry about LL's shift patterns. Important, because there is no direct evidence against her, so demonstrating she was present at the relevant times established guilt by association

MSN

 

[motorbiking]

The part I found interesting is the way the shift patterns were filtered so that only the LL deaths were shown. I wonder if it had been shown with less bias, if the Jury would have convicted.

 

[blup]

The stats prof who challenged the way the shift pattern data was used, was I think initially hired by the police/cps and then let go. I think I read somewhere that may have been because she said what she is saying now, that the data didn't support the conclusions the police thought it did. If so isn't the prosecution supposed to disclose evidence that harms their case? Or is an expert witness's opinion not evidence?

 

[motorbiking]

The stats prof who challenged the way the shift pattern data was used, was I think initially hired by the police/cps and then let go. I think I read somewhere that may have been because she said what she is saying now, that the data didn't support the conclusions the police thought it did. If so isn't the prosecution supposed to disclose evidence that harms their case? Or is an expert witness's opinion not evidence?

Not evidence.

But strictly speaking the CPS are supposed to go where the evidence takes them, not case build. of course that doesn't happen.