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[ezme @ezmehn3y]

So, Lucy Letby did all that, in plain sight, in a tightly packed neonatal unit, with no witnesses, for over a year, leaving no finger prints, no tampered equipment and with no motive. Meanwhile, the UK maternity system is in complete disarray. Can’t help but do the maths.

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

#GeneralElectionNow

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

I have never taken part in a coup against any Leader of the Labour Party and I am not going to start now. 2/3

[C @ct1738463]

@JohnSmith171393 @ClarkeMicah Watch the Dr Shoo Lee press conference and it will tell you everything you need to know. There were no murders. The deaths were caused by natural causes and bad medical care. She’s absolutely innocent.

[Mia @Mia87562570]

since Lucy Letbys trial not one credible expert in neonatology, medicine or science has ever agreed with the prosecution in fact all say she is innocent or have expressed concerns . 30 of the world neonatal experts found no murder.

[Dr Svilena Dimitrova @NeoDoc11]

I think many people disengage when it is suggested that what happened to Lucy Letby was, in fact, a witch hunt. They often find the term emotionally charged and fail to recognise that, historically, witch hunts were not merely the actions of angry mobs. In Britain, many were conducted through official judicial processes and carried out under the authority of the state. As a result, people frequently mistake collective persecution for a legitimate pursuit of accountability. Yet there is a fundamental difference between holding someone accountable for crimes they have demonstrably committed and subjecting them to a witch hunt.

Witch hunts have several defining characteristics that distinguish them from genuine accountability processes. One of the most important is the treatment of evidence. Accountability requires careful examination of clear, contemporaneous evidence. Witch hunts, by contrast, often rely on feelings, assumptions, suggestions, speculation, and retrospective reinterpretations of events designed to support a predetermined narrative. The distinction is clearly identifiable through historical analysis. Looking back at documented cases allows us to see the difference between evidence-led investigations and campaigns driven by social, institutional, or political pressures.
In the Letby case, as in many instances involving genuine whistleblowers (while recognising that not everyone who claims whistleblower status genuinely is one), the documented records, to which I have had access within my capacity as instructed expert by Letby’s new legal team, clearly shows that the Letby prosecution was a clear cut example of a witch hunt.

Witch hunts never disappeared - they have just been re-branded. They are rooted in patterns of human behaviour that are as old as biblical times. Religious texts, including accounts surrounding the trial and execution of Jesus, contain stories of examples of identical dynamics. Such phenomena have likely existed for as long as human societies have existed.

What has changed is their form. Modern witch hunts are rarely labelled as such. They are often rebranded as moral crusades, safeguarding exercises, or accountability campaigns. Yet the underlying dynamics remain the same. While they no longer typically end with public executions, they can and do result in the destruction of reputations, careers, livelihoods, and sometimes even personal liberty. In many cases, the process itself becomes the punishment, regardless of whether the accusations are ultimately proven.

@MartynPitman @drphilhammond @PrivateEyeNews @drcmday @NadimHCr @NadineDorries @ArturNadol7566 @peter__duffy @ClarkeMicah @LucyGoBag @JusticeGap @LucyLetbyTrials @ClarkeMicah @PeterElston1 @Seagreen2707 @RexvsLucyLetby @hannahsbee @Michelehal7344 @MichelleWelshMP @DavidRoseUK

[The Trials of Lucy Letby @LucyLetbyTrials]

"Although this has been very traumatic, my strong desire to remain in Chester and within CoCH remains, and I am hopeful that we can find a professional way forward to enable my return to where I feel I belong."

Read the letter Lucy Letby wrote to her accusers after a hospital grievance investigation found in her favour, and she was told she could come back to work: https://t.co/tMAeTOE160

Alas, Letby never came back to work.

A few weeks after she wrote this letter, and right before she was scheduled to return, one of her accusers, Dr Ravi Jayaram, told the hospital that he'd once walked in on her trying to murder a baby.

It only took Dr Jayaram a year and a month to tell the hospital about this – about walking in on an attempted murder on a baby.

It took Letby winning an HR complaint against him for Dr Jayaram to speak up.

Once he did, the hospital called in the police.

[Alex Cutter @AlexCutter86]

And that's just the prison days. Imagine all those days of emotional burden & trauma with the initial accusations, the grievance, the multiple arrests & interrogations. She's had to endure the best part of over 10 years of this. A national disgrace. @ccrcupdate @VeraBaird

[Guy Rowland @guyrowlanduk]

Lucy Letby is serving 6 whole life orders for injecting air into the vein not because there was any evidence for it, but because a retired paediatrician who touted for business as an expert "couldn't think of another cause".

Vastly more qualified people have found other causes.

[The Jالی Contrarian @ContrarianJolly]

@rob_goudie It cracks me up when these people say,
“Are you seriously trying to say 4 doctors, a police force, the crown prosecution service, 7 expert witnesses, 24 jurors and 5 judges can all be wrong?”

I have 900 subpostmasters you should meet.

[WilliamHallett @William26139338]

@MySweetLandlord @markjurgenmayes @MartynPitman @cheshirepolice Evans clearly thinks he is Miss Marple. He should not have had any of this information because it biased his thinking. He should only have commented on (blinded) medical information though he was also under qualified to do that. British Justice is a complete joke @ShabanaMahmood

[Peter Hayes @peternhayes]

Hi @justinmadders, @RachaelMaskell, @Alison_McGovern, Dame @DianaJohnsonMP, and Sir @MarkTamiMP
I wrote two weeks ago to ask to you to speak up for justice for Lucy Letby, I haven’t yet got a reply, so am trying again on Twitter.
Best Wishes
Peter Hayes

[Guy Rowland @guyrowlanduk]

Thanks!

Chester police wanted Lucy Letby, a Band 5 nurse, to give an alternative explanation for complex neonatal failures in her hospital.

Because she didn't know - and wasn't "turning over the tables" in the interview - they inferred guilt.

A botched investigation.

[The Jالی Contrarian @ContrarianJolly]

@mellycatslave @MartynPitman What indeed. A witness who claims he caught a nurse attempting murder “virtually red-handed” and didn’t mention it—even when she took a grievance against him for alleging she was harming babies—only “remembering” after losing the grievance—has a significant credibility problem.

[Rob @RobGavi]

@LucyLetbyTrials @gill1109 And then of course there’s the TV Doctor’s email that came to light, completely contradicting his testimony…

[Henry B 🕷🇪🇺 @HenryB12345]

@LucyLetbyTrials @DebbieKennett And one of the anonymous doctors in the trial actually killed a baby in 2014 but the jury weren’t told. The whole thing is insane.

[𝑲𝒐𝒔𝒎𝒐 @Kosmo100]

@LucyLetbyTrials @drphilhammond Dr Jayaram needs to be prosecuted for perverting the course of justice at the very least.

[WilliamHallett @William26139338]

@LucyLetbyTrials The only inference that makes sense is that Ravi Jayaram is a vindictive liar whose perjury resulted in an innocent woman going to prison for life

[The Trials of Lucy Letby @LucyLetbyTrials]

Last thing I'll point out for now about the successful outcome of Lucy Letby's grievance complaint, against Drs Stephen Brearey and Ravi Jayaram, for bullying and harassing her, which the jury never got to hear about.

The trial judge didn't just object to jurors being told that Letby won her grievance. He objected to the defence making any mention at all of the fact that, months after Drs Brearey and Jayaram succeeded in forcing Letby out of her job, the hospital gave her the all-clear to come back to work.

The judge's reasoning (see screenshots) was clear: if the defence told jurors that Letby was due to return to work in March 2017, then jurors could end up deducing that Letby had won her grievance. And worse, they could end up sussing out what actually happened behind the scenes: the hospital gave Letby her job back after determining that the accusations against her were baseless.

Any chance of any hint of any inference on the part of any juror along these lines had to be foreclosed.

And so when all was said and done, the jury only got to hear the first half of the story.

They heard that Letby filed a grievance. They heard that she did so after doctors succeeded in forcing her out of her job, to keep her away from the babies. They heard the prosecutor describe Letby's "frustration at the fact that she was not being allowed back onto the neonatal unit." They heard she was raring to come back.

But, rightly or wrongly, the jury never got to hear the rest: that Letby won her grievance; that a months-long investigation found the doctors had bullied and harassed her; that the lead investigator had this to say about them: "I was disgusted by their behaviour. It is likely that they lied."

The jury never got to hear about how the hospital set a plan in motion to get Letby back on her feet – to get her working on the unit again by March 2017.

They never got to hear about the senior nurse who told the grievance investigators, "we would be delighted to have her back."

They never got to hear about how Drs Brearey and Jayaram were forced to apologise for their behaviour.

And they never got to hear how, halfway through March 2017, with Letby counting down the days until her return, Dr Jayaram demanded a meeting with the head of HR. And that in that meeting, he dropped a bombshell.

On 15 March 2017, Dr Jayaram told Sue Hodkinson, the hospital's head of HR, that he had once caught Lucy Letby trying to murder a baby.

A huge revelation, and yet the first anyone remembers hearing about it. Even though, according to Dr Jayaram, the incident had happened all the way back in February 2016.

In other words: Dr Jayaram says he caught Lucy Letby trying to murder a baby, and he sat on the information for over a year.

No matter. His account was disturbing, and it prompted the hospital to call the police.

With that, the plan to give Letby her job back collapsed. She never stepped foot on the neonatal unit again.