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SBT

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #176
https://archive.ph/2024.05.14-044149/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/20/lucy-letby-was-found-guilty-of-killing-seven-babies-did-she-do-it
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #177
SBT said:
https://archive.ph/2024.05.14-044149/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/20/lucy-letby-was-found-guilty-of-killing-seven-babies-did-she-do-it
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Merci monsiuer
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #178
How else can one account for babies having been found injected with air if not done so to them?
 

shmmeee

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #179
That article seems to just be “I showed some media reports to some doctors and they didn’t believe them”. I can’t help but feel that maybe someone with medical experience was involved in the trial.
 
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SBT

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #180
Brighton Sky Blue said:
How else can one account for babies having been found injected with air if not done so to them?
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Did you read the article?
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #181
SBT said:
Did you read the article?
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Did you read all of the medical evidence?
 
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SBT

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #182
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Did you read all of the medical evidence?
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I don’t think anyone on here has
 

Otis

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #183
It's a weird one, as she seemed so guilty. She had actually written stuff T home about killing babies hadn't she?

The killings also only happened on her watch and others had flagged up concerns.

I will definitely read through the article to see what they are saying. Always willing to keep an open mind.
 

Sky Blue Pete

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #184
SBT said:
https://archive.ph/2024.05.14-044149/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/20/lucy-letby-was-found-guilty-of-killing-seven-babies-did-she-do-it
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Fuckin hell!!!
Hope the hang them and throw away the key people have a read
Have no doubt in my mind that beyond reasonable doubt has not been met and an appeal will be successful at some point maybe the next one or decades from now
Thanks for sharing
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #185
Brighton Sky Blue said:
How else can one account for babies having been found injected with air if not done so to them?
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The argument in the article says there wasn’t any evidence of it other than the crashing and death of the baby involved

My mum had a baby in 1969 or so that was born weighing 4lbs, his lungs hadn’t fully developed and he died after 5 days

We recently marked his death where he had been buried in another persons grave almost 50 years later

These babies were hugely vulnerable it appears sometimes we just don’t know

I have no idea and won’t ever have read enough to know if she was guilty or not but beyond reasonable doubt is the measure not balance of probabilities and this has put that level of doubt in my mind

It’s a good well reasoned and logical article
 

TomRad85

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #186
Sky Blue Pete said:
The argument in the article says there wasn’t any evidence of it other than the crashing and death of the baby involved

My mum had a baby in 1969 or so that was born weighing 4lbs, his lungs hadn’t fully developed and he died after 5 days

We recently marked his death where he had been buried in another persons grave almost 50 years later

These babies were hugely vulnerable it appears sometimes we just don’t know

I have no idea and won’t ever have read enough to know if she was guilty or not but beyond reasonable doubt is the measure not balance of probabilities and this has put that level of doubt in my mind

It’s a good well reasoned and logical article
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Doesn't take much to win you over. A short piece by a writer at the New Yorker. I suspect those in the court room had a bit more to go off.

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SBT

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #187
TomRad85 said:
Doesn't take much to win you over. A short piece by a writer at the New Yorker. I suspect those in the court room had a bit more to go off.

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A short piece?
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #188
TomRad85 said:
Doesn't take much to win you over. A short piece by a writer at the New Yorker. I suspect those in the court room had a bit more to go off.

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You’ve not read it have you?
They had much much more to go on yes
 

TomRad85

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #189
SBT said:
A short piece?
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Well ok sorry, a short piece in relative terms compared to how this would have been combed over in the courts.

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TomRad85

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #190
Sky Blue Pete said:
You’ve not read it have you?
They had much much more to go on yes
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Enough for you to decide you want her released?

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Grendel

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #191
Sky Blue Pete said:
Fuckin hell!!!
Hope the hang them and throw away the key people have a read
Have no doubt in my mind that beyond reasonable doubt has not been met and an appeal will be successful at some point maybe the next one or decades from now
Thanks for sharing
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Seriously?
 
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SBT

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #192
TomRad85 said:
Well ok sorry, a short piece in relative terms compared to how this would have been combed over in the courts.

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It’s a deeply reported piece, with dozens of interviews with hospital administrators, former colleagues, medical experts, and key figures from the prosecution and the defence. It will have taken months if not years to put together, and The New Yorker’s approach to fact checking is notoriously rigorous, especially with a story like this.

I don’t really understand the defensiveness, or the implicit trust in the UK legal system. I’d give it a read first.
 
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Grendel

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #193
SBT said:
It’s a deeply reported piece, with dozens of interviews with hospital administrators, former colleagues, medical experts, and key figures from the prosecution and the defence. It will have taken months if not years to put together, and The New Yorker’s approach to fact checking is notoriously rigorous, especially with a story like this.

I don’t really understand the defensiveness, or the implicit trust in the UK legal system. I’d give it a read first.
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The trial lasted for over a year. It also took rather a long time to put together.
 
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shmmeee

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #194
SBT said:
It’s a deeply reported piece, with dozens of interviews with hospital administrators, former colleagues, medical experts, and key figures from the prosecution and the defence. It will have taken months if not years to put together, and The New Yorker’s approach to fact checking is notoriously rigorous, especially with a story like this.

I don’t really understand the defensiveness, or the implicit trust in the UK legal system. I’d give it a read first.
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They read the reporting and transcripts, spoke to a few unrelated US doctors, the defence, and one or two people on the fringes. They say they couldn’t talk to most people because of reporting restrictions.

A lot of it comes off as “that UK care is just terrible not like the US” in fact the reporter says as much on their Twitter:


This reply is my feeling and the reply to it is pretty weak sauce TBH

 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #195
TomRad85 said:
Enough for you to decide you want her released?

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It’s nothing to do with me
I’ve no idea whether she should be released and have said so
I have no doubt given the questions raised that at some point an appeal will be successful because of the nature of our justice system in that guilt is a matter of beyond reasonable doubt and not balance of probabilities
We’ll see over the next decade I assume
 

shmmeee

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #196
Possibility 1: Random journalist and his mates in the US have found serious problems with court and medical procedures in the UK

Possibility 2: Random journalist and his mates in the US have half the story and write sensationalist article based on not much in continuation of a trend of popular miscarriage of justice podcasts of questionable quality.
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #197
Grendel said:
The trial lasted for over a year. It also took rather a long time to put together.
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What’s that got to do with it?
It was 10 months and the case took many years to put together
As have other cases that have been found to have led to miscarriages
Who knows about this one?
 
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wingy

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #198
I'm open to it, but suspect it could be just another piece or could be what happens in cases like this if you're view is revenge rather than pity!
 
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SBT

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #199
Grendel said:
The trial lasted for over a year. It also took rather a long time to put together.
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What’s your point?
 
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SBT

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #200
shmmeee said:
Possibility 1: Random journalist and his mates in the US have found serious problems with court and medical procedures in the UK

Possibility 2: Random journalist and his mates in the US have half the story and write sensationalist article based on not much in continuation of a trend of popular miscarriage of justice podcasts of questionable quality.
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The journalist (it’s a woman btw) is openly critical of the sensationalist coverage of murder trials in the article, which I assume you’ve read. This is The New Yorker, not a Netflix series. She seems to have spoken to many of the key players involved in the case, including some of the key prosecution witnesses on the record.

I didn’t post it as irrefutable proof of her innocence, but again, I’m not sure why the defensiveness.
 

Grendel

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #201
SBT said:
What’s your point?
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You were questioning it’s a short article. It is
 

Grendel

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #202
SBT said:
The journalist (it’s a woman btw) is openly critical of the sensationalist coverage of murder trials in the article, which I assume you’ve read. This is The New Yorker, not a Netflix series. She seems to have spoken to many of the key players involved in the case, including some of the key prosecution witnesses on the record.

I didn’t post it as irrefutable proof of her innocence, but again, I’m not sure why the defensiveness.
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You aren’t even supposed to have posted it
 
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SBT

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #203
Grendel said:
You were questioning it’s a short article. It is
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I think I saw it’s 13,000 words - it’s not a short article by any journalistic or academic standard.

Still not sure what your point is - we don’t decide someone’s guilt by word count.
 
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SBT

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #204
Grendel said:
You aren’t even supposed to have posted it
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If Nick is concerned about the legal implications then I’ll happily remove the link.
 

shmmeee

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #205
SBT said:
The journalist (it’s a woman btw) is openly critical of the sensationalist coverage of murder trials in the article, which I assume you’ve read. This is The New Yorker, not a Netflix series. She seems to have spoken to many of the key players involved in the case, including some of the key prosecution witnesses on the record.

I didn’t post it as irrefutable proof of her innocence, but again, I’m not sure why the defensiveness.
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Well then I’m not sure why the defensiveness with this journalist.

Once you cut past the heart string tugging it’s basically “her defence and friends and family don’t believe it, everyone says she was lovely, here’s some US doctors with no familiarity of the case who say the UK healthcare system sucks and these experts don’t know their arse from their elbow”

When specifically challenged on this point the response isn’t “yeah there could be things I’ve missed” but “ I my mates said they can’t think of any other reasons”.

It hangs on the assumption that everyone is corrupt, incompetent, and that we’re all a bunch of backwards yokels who wouldn’t get work as a vet in the US. That last bit may account for some of the defensiveness you’re seeing.
 
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skybluetony176

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #206
I can’t imagine any doctor of merit would dismiss an air embolism as something that would just make a baby “throw up”. A friend of mine had one after a diving accident meaning he had to go in a decompression chamber. Don’t recall if he got the embolism from the incident itself or the decompression chamber but the short of it was he had a stroke because the embolism reached his brain. He was a very fit and healthy 30 something at the time and still couldn’t fully recover, some 20 years later he still has a gap in his field of vision which prevents him from being able to hold a driving licence. If an air embolism can do that to a fully developed fit and healthy adult I’m not sure how you can take a doctor seriously if they’re saying that in a a still developing vulnerable new born baby it will do no more than make them vomit.
 
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wingy

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #207
skybluetony176 said:
I can’t imagine any doctor of merit would dismiss an air embolism as something that would just make a baby “throw up”. A friend of mine had one after a diving accident meaning he had to go in a decompression chamber. Don’t recall if he got the embolism from the incident itself or the decompression chamber but the short of it was he had a stroke because the embolism reached his brain. He was a very fit and healthy 30 something at the time and still couldn’t fully recover, some 20 years later he still has a gap in his field of vision which prevents him from being able to hold a driving licence. If an air embolism can do that to a fully developed fit and healthy adult I’m not sure how you can take a doctor seriously if they’re saying that in a a still developing vulnerable new born baby it will do no more than make them vomit.
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What was the bit around the stomach,was it in reference to that?
 
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SBT

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #208
shmmeee said:
Well then I’m not sure why the defensiveness with this journalist.

Once you cut past the heart string tugging it’s basically “her defence and friends and family don’t believe it, everyone says she was lovely, here’s some US doctors with no familiarity of the case who say the UK healthcare system sucks and these experts don’t know their arse from their elbow”

When specifically challenged on this point the response isn’t “yeah there could be things I’ve missed” but “ I my mates said they can’t think of any other reasons”.

It hangs on the assumption that everyone is corrupt, incompetent, and that we’re all a bunch of backwards yokels who wouldn’t get work as a vet in the US. That last bit may account for some of the defensiveness you’re seeing.
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I don’t see why the nationalities are that relevant here.

As for “familiarity of the case”, both the prosecution and defence relied on expert witnesses who weren’t familiar with the case until being tasked with it - that’s how a trial works, isn’t it?

Yes, there are assumptions and heart string tugging at the core of this piece - just as there have been with the reams of stories portraying Letby as a psychotic mass murderer. Only this story seems to be getting the scrutiny though?
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #209
Sky Blue Pete said:
The argument in the article says there wasn’t any evidence of it other than the crashing and death of the baby involved

My mum had a baby in 1969 or so that was born weighing 4lbs, his lungs hadn’t fully developed and he died after 5 days

We recently marked his death where he had been buried in another persons grave almost 50 years later

These babies were hugely vulnerable it appears sometimes we just don’t know

I have no idea and won’t ever have read enough to know if she was guilty or not but beyond reasonable doubt is the measure not balance of probabilities and this has put that level of doubt in my mind

It’s a good well reasoned and logical article
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I am willing to consider that, but when someone writes ‘I killed them’ and is seen near a baby who suddenly declines to death, what is the most likely explanation?
 
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SBT

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  • May 14, 2024
  • #210
shmmeee said:
Once you cut past the heart string tugging it’s basically “her defence and friends and family don’t believe it, everyone says she was lovely, here’s some US doctors with no familiarity of the case who say the UK healthcare system sucks and these experts don’t know their arse from their elbow”
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Also, there’s a grand total of one US doctor quoted in the piece (well, South African, but working at Harvard) and he doesn’t talk about the UK healthcare system at all.

So I have to ask, did you actually read it?
 
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