Re: [OT] Serial killer serving 15 life sentences is innocent of all charges

On 2025-02-05 4:14 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
 

I don't know how much you've heard about Lucy Letby, a young nurse who
has been accused and convicted of killing 7 or 8 babies and severely
injuring 7 or 8 others. She's serving 15 life sentences for her crimes.

 

An international panel of medical experts got together and re-examined
all the medical evidence. Their conclusion: there were NO murders. The
deaths of these babies were the result of substandard care that they
blamed on the hospital, not Nurse Letby.

 

Her lawyers have already forwarded this new information to a body that
can get her sentences dropped and a Conservative MP is championing her
cause. No idea how long any change in her status will take. I don't know
if the Crown Prosecution Service will fight the findings of these experts.

 

I found this a rather breathtaking development. I can't remember ever
hearing about a case where someone who had been convicted of being a
serial killer then found to be innocent of all charges.

 

Her defence certainly did a horrible job in not getting this kind of
evidence during the trial rather than only coming up with it almost a
decade after her conviction!

 I don't get it. With patterns of morbidity and mortality in hospitals,
they look for common factors, so these patterns that led to death should
have been seen in babies she didn't care for.
 Also, what's the explanation for her being on shift and failing to
report the substandard care even if she herself wasn't committing
malpractice?

I honestly don't know and haven't yet seen any interviews with experts that could answer those questions.
However, I did see comments under one YouTube video that said it was standard practice in British hospital for the mistakes of doctors to be blamed on nurses. In fact, some commenters, who claimed to have worked for the NHS (National Health Service), said this was endemic to the system: any time something was felt to be less than ideal at a given level but blamed on people one level below who would in turn blame the people one level below. That may be ill-informed gossip or the gospel truth, I really don't know.
Check out some British news sources and maybe you'll get lucky and find that some of them have had the sense to get answers to your questions from authoritative sources.
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Rhino