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Subject: Re: [OT] Serial killer serving 15 life sentences is innocent of all
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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 17:39:03 -0500
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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.

-- 
Rhino