Lady Thirwall presides over the Countess of Chester Hospital Inquiry on the presumption of Lucy Letby’s guilt, as she must. With less need, she began by admonishing those of us who question this guilt or – at least – question that it was proven beyond reasonable doubt.
We should hold our tongues, we’re told, to respect the bereaved.
But the doubts and doubters grow louder, with articles across the spectrum from the Telegraph to the Guardian, along with very detailed critiques by Dr. Phillip Hammond in Private Eye.
We must and do have sympathy for the parents. They have suffered grievous loss, and ongoing argument must add hurt. But this is insufficient to imprison a young woman in perpetuity if her ‘guilt’ is a mirage, confected from bad luck and poor practice in a unit that was an accident waiting to happen, along with contradictory jottings, scribbled down at the behest of a therapist.
The Countess of Chester had an exceptionally high stillbirth rate too, on a maternity unit unconnected to Letby. It wasn’t a wise place to have your baby, as Nadine Dorries learnt from experience.
Doubts have seeped even into the BBC, just as foul water leaks oozed into the Chester Unit. Its File on Four highlights Baby C. Dr Dewi Evans, the prosecution’s principal expert, gave a detailed, if unusual, explanation for this infant’s demise: injection of air into the stomach. This, he said, caused the baby’s stomach to expand, rupturing the diaphragm and crushing the lungs. The BBC now reminds us that the critical X-ray was taken after three days when Lucy Letby hadn’t been on duty. This has led Dr. Evans to rethink, recalling that Baby C was “always the most difficult case”. He has discarded ‘injection to the stomach’ but remains confident that Lucy dunnit, by later injecting air to the baby’s bloodstream. That’s quite a jump, given the previous detail.
Nor does the inquiry evidence help the good Lady’s demands that we shut up. Late in 2016, after Letby had been moved to a desk job, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) reviewed the Neonatal Unit deaths, concluding that the unit was under-resourced, lacked a specialist neonatologist and had insufficient consultant ward-rounds. What has now emerged is a confidential addendum, addressing the consultants’ concerns about Letby, and concluding that these were based solely on correlation and were “quite subjective“. This led hospital management – who disbelieved the consultants’ allegations – to demand that they apologise to Letby and that she return to clinical work. The consultants then involved the police, igniting the powder trail…
This week, medics who were the unit juniors in 2015-16 took their turns on the witness stand. At the time several thought that the frequent deaths and collapses were likely due to bacterial infection, just as I do today. Sewage leaks, and taps contaminated with the opportunist pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, do not mix well with very premature infants. These have incomplete immune systems and, if born before 29 weeks’ gestation, largely lack the benefit of maternal antibodies, which later transfer across the placenta. Very premature babies can ‘go off’ very quickly, often without the typical signs and symptoms of infection.
The one piece of new evidence to emerge against Letby was that her two training periods at the Liverpool Women’s Hospital allegedly coincided with 40% rates of dislodged endotracheal tubes, compared with expected rates below 1%. But this has been swiftly challenged. Neonatologists point to product problems in the period and to dislodgement rates between 1% and 80%. In any event, Letby was a trainee. If she had a problem with intubation, did no one correct her?
Lady Thirwall’s task increasingly resembles that of a 17th century justice instructed to find ways to prevent witches wreaking havoc. Outside the courthouse, people clamour that witches aren’t real, or lack the malign powers attributed to them They didn’t cause the laming of John Law, a pedlar, for which 10 women hanged at Lancaster in 1612. Law quite possibly had a stroke soon after being cursed by Alizon Device. Perhaps Alizon scared or enraged him, but she didn’t cause his stroke by witchcraft.
And, all too plausibly, Letby’s ‘crime’ was to be fool enough to remain in a badly-run and contaminated unit, working far beyond its competency. Even less wise, she accepted every shift she could because she was saving to buy a house.
Which brings me to a plug for Lucy Letby, the New Evidence airing on Channel 5 tomorrow (October 6th) at 9pm. This pulls together the doubts swirling around these convictions from statistical, medical and legal standpoints.
I’m talking about the likelihood of infection, as outlined above. Dr. John Ashton, formerly Director of Public Health in Northwest England, discusses systems failures and how multiple deficiencies were piled together to cause catastrophes. Among Chester’s deficiencies was the erosion of nurse staffing, a topic expanded by Michele Worden, who was Neonatal Nurse Practitioner at the Countess until redundancy in 2007. She talks of the many senior nurses who were ‘let go’, leaving qualified but inexperienced staff, such as Lucy, to care for the sickest infants. Drs. Svilena Dimitrova, Phil Hammond and Alan Wayne Jones discuss the bizarre methods of murder claimed by the prosecution, as in the same producer’s earlier documentary. They make the good point that, until Dr. Evans, a paediatrician, came along, these deaths were recorded, by experienced pathologists as ‘Natural Causes’.
Mark McDonald speaks of the challenges he faces in taking over as Lucy Letby’s barrister, seeking to bring her case to the Criminal Cases Review Board, and of the worthlessness of her ‘confession’ notes. Linked to this, Dr. Waney Squire, an Oxford neuropathologist, explains the difficulty of being an expert defence witness in emotive cases. She found herself in serious trouble with the GMC for standing up in court to challenge accepted ‘wisdom’ on Shaken Baby Syndrome. If expert witnesses won’t appear for fear of professional defenestration, justice can’t be attained.
Lastly, or rather first in the film’s running order, Sir David Davis MP speaks on why he is raising questions about Lucy Letby in the Commons and why he will continue to look into this case, concerned that it very well may be a major miscarriage of justice.
Do watch.
Dr. David Livermore is a retired Professor of Medical Microbiology at the University of East Anglia.
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Would the author of the article have mentioned the religion of the security guard if he had been Christian?
How can they be sure he is?
A truly excellent point. They obviously asked him. Why? If a white man had intervened in the same way, would they have asked him what his religious beliefs were?
Dull boy.
His name? Abdullah = Servant of God in Arabic.
It is why we were immediately told his name, rather than just ‘a security guard’.
Had it been Anglo-Saxon would we have been told – Fred or Dave or Jim tackled the alleged knife man?
We have constantly to be reminded of the benefits of diversity, multiculturalism, etc.
Probably not.
Mr Eldred is the only one who can answer that.
It may be that he is making the point that the Islamic faith, just like any other faith, should not be entirely written off on account of the criminal behaviour of some of its members. The vast majority of Moslems in this country are law abiding citizens and good neighbours.
Let us recall that barbaric mass murder throughout the Caucasus is currently being perpetrated mainly by Christians, well over a million dead in two years.
A good few are being killed in Sudan.
“It may be that he is making the point that the Islamic faith, just like any other faith, should not be entirely written off on account of the criminal behaviour of some of its members.”
I’m not sure many people are “entirely writing it off”, just saying we don’t want too much of it here. Anyway, while you’d hope “religious” people would be more likely to do what this bloke supposedly did, it’s really about character.
“The vast majority of Moslems in this country are law abiding citizens and good neighbours.” Another straw man statement. If the % of non-law abiding and/or antisocial Group X is say 10% and the % for Group Y is 0.1%, let’s have fewer of Group X please. Furthermore, it’s partly about “law abiding” and “good neighbours” and partly about wanting to preserve our culture and race, and preserve England as a white European nation. But it’s too late and only a tiny number of crackpot racists like me want to do this, so we’re done for.
“preserve our culture and race, and preserve England as a white European nation.”
As I share these views completely I dare say I am a ‘Faaar Right’ racist too.
Clearly we are not done for; nor will we be.
Nevertheless it would be a big help if the government would call a halt on all unnecessary immigration for the time being and encourage assimilation through education.
Pigs might fly.
It might also be helpful if the use of the word ‘muzzie’ was eschewed, particularly on this site. It seems to have, for whatever reason, taken on a pejorative connotation.
White Britons will be a minority by 2070 – official (so you can bet it will happen sooner as they pretend not to know how many foreigners are). I don’t use the term “muzzie” but I would not want to live in a majority Muslim country.
Demographics are ultimately everything – Whites have been really good at everything except reproducing and defending their borders against non-Whites.
In the US on 9/11 just 17 Muslims hijacked four passenger planes, crashing two of them into the WTC, one into the Pentagon, one into a field resukting in large scale loss of life, injury and destruction.
As someone remarked, that the vast majority of Muslims in the USA were peaceful was irrelevant.
Indeed though to be fair McVeigh was presumably nominally a Christian
You know what’s going to happen now, don’t you? The attacker’s going to be labelled ‘far right’. Well especially if the victims were ‘people of colour’. I know, I know, I speculate, but it’s very convenient the rescuer was Muslim and the attacker’s white, unless he’s some sort of radicalized convert or something. Anyway, I check my bias at the door and await further details. It pays to remember scumbags come in various ‘flavours’.
This is all very strange indeed… Yet another False flag event..
If the victims were ‘people of colour’ can we expect “demonstrations,” not riots obviously, from adherents of the religion of peace?
Hmm.
A good news story here at least though;
”A YOB who falsely claimed he was being chased by racist thugs during a riot in a TikTok livestream has been jailed.
Asylum seeker Dimitrie Stoica posted the livestream to 700 people as protesters swooped on Derbyshire.
The 25-year-old claimed he was being chased by “extreme right-wing rioters” and that he was in fear for his life.
He added: “I am running bro because they are running after me.
“They’re coming. Everyone get back.”
Stoica has now been banged up for three months after he admitted sending a false communication with intent to cause harm.
Nottingham Magistrates’ Court heard the Romanian national was stopped by police shortly after livestreaming the fake chase.
He later claimed his comments were just a “joke” and that he was hoping to get more followers.
But the court heard it was a deliberate attempt to “stir up racial hatred”.
Assistant Chief Constable Michelle Shooter said: “As has been made clear by forces across the country any criminal actions relating to the disorder, whether they be in person or online, will be dealt with quickly and robustly.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/29829967/riot-yob-jail-tiktok-fake-video/
Michelle Shooter.
“A quick-thinking Christian security guard tackled a knifeman after he stabbed an 11 year-old girl and her 34 year-old mother in Leicester Square.”
Nah. This doesn’t have quite the same oomph. It seems sort of contrived. Next thing we know it will be…
“A quick-thinking Christian security guard, who goes to Church every Sunday, tackled a knifeman after he stabbed an 11 year-old girl and her 34 year-old mother in Leicester Square.”
Nah, it will never happen.
Funny…but not beyond the realms of possibility in the new Orwellian Great Britain, sadly, especially if there’s a whiff of patriotism amongst them;
https://x.com/TiceRichard/status/1823044226969407586
That’s good.
Especially “a quick thinking” one
No. He would have been ‘a member of the public’.
Good that the attacker was apprehended, but if the man that pushed him to the floor was Catholic would his religion have been mentioned? Is this supposed to be some brownie points for Muslims?
I think the point is to remind us in difficult times that not all Muslims are unspeakable.
Good man. It would seem.
Don’t forget how the ruling class works they’re happy enough to stir up hatred between ordinary people. It keeps our mind off our loathing of the despised, corrupt ruling class.
Rubbish. Don’t be a Dhimmi.
“Not all Muslims are unspeakable” ??? Does that mean you are saying most of them are? Better watch out, Starmers Hate Police might be having a word in your ear. ———-Why should this security guard not be a “good man”?
“I think the point is to remind us in difficult times that not all Muslims are unspeakable.”
Indeed.
It was reported that in the 1930s/40s not all NASDAP members were unspeakable, some even helped save Jews.
This is the guy who did it, apparently. Not what most were expecting, presumably;
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1823036928041615535
My guess would be that this (the Mail article) is a sexed-up report about attempted street robbery by a junkie which is making headlines because the people configuration is mighty convenient for our cherished political leaders at the moment.
. <– pointless point so that I can fix the Mail misspelling.
It was entirely staged.
The video appears to have been deleted. Maybe this one will stay up longer. Just bear in mind this account is fake, not the real Abdullah;
https://x.com/AbdullahfromUk/status/1822999848766906405
The anti-Asian sentiment existed in England throughout the 1970s until the 1990s. But it was never particularly concerned with Islam. Some people attribute this change to 911 but I think this is wrong. This was a movement that gained momentum in the late 1990s in Paris and London, with a bit of encouragement from a certtain state. It was a directive from the cabal to channel all anti-immigration sentiment into anti-Muslim sentiment. And of course the plebs dutifully obliged. There is plenty to dislike about Islam but what we see in the West is entirely confected I mean to the nth level.
He could be anything.
As I said on the News Round-Up earlier, before I saw this article…
“What do you bet that the latest stabbing of a girl, 11, and her mother, 34, in London’s Leicester Square turns out to be a deliberate reverse of the Southport Mass Stabbing, with the London victims turning out to be Ethnic African, and the stabber an Ethnic European?
The media and police have already lauded an Islamic “hero” staff member of a nearby shop who intervened and helped capture the stabber, and has already been photo-featured describing his heroic actions.”
What a remarkable turn of events, eh? Perfect timing as well. Gosh, what a coincidence.
False flag…
Absolutely. You are wide awake.
My vote would be on everyday (drug-related) crime which usually goes unreported.
Oh please. You are far too intelligent to be so easily taken in.
Nah.. The timing, the way it’s been reported, I can understand how one would find it hard to believe we are played to this sort of level…. But we are..
I absolutely don’t find this hard to believe, I just don’t think the powers who laugh about us need to stage such an event. They can just catapult something into the headlines which would usually end up being a minor news item. Eg, according to the police, the mother suffered minor injuries and the child “serious but not life-threatening injuries”. If this was small child (very likely, yes), there’s no way to stab it in earnest without causing a life-threatening injury. Ergo: The attacker didn’t mean to, he was just putting on a show. Mogwai has posted a link to a short video about the arrest above. The guy us extraordinarily thin => very likely an addict.
And I suppose you still think that Hamas, on Oct 7th last, miraculously breeched the most high tech and secure border fence on the planet in 19 separate places, while the IDF were, cough, of course caught with their pants down relaxing by the pool, thus failed to respond for 6 hrs..
While the most revered and accomplished secret service, Mossad, who, as we have recently witnessed, can assassinate enemies in distant countries using satellite nav and high tech drones, of course knew absolutely nothing of the impending attack, cough again, even though Egypt warned them several times..
I use this example for a good reason…
Because it’s the same people.
Stabber was an immigrant? Do we know? His name suggest so.
The Left have done a good job conflating race with culture so any complaint or discourse about multiculturalism can be labelled “racist” and shut down and Hate Speech legislation applied.
Culture is not determined by race – a quick look round the World shows that. Those who promote culture being due to race, are de facto racist.
Members of monocultures form distinct societies shaped by their shared culture and because of this those societies tend to be stable, peaceful, prosperous.
Multiple cultures = multiple societies = tribalism = disunity, disharmony, tensions, conflict, warfare. History of the World.
Multicultural society therefore is oxymoronic.
According to news reporter Charlie Peters outside court today the attacker is a Romanian national.
You should just try to take people as you find them. I have associated with Muslims for decades and unless I am very obtuse they don’t want to kill white children or any children, The might dislike the bent of the British agenda since 2003 but there is no anti-western agenda. If you are persuing this line of thought then you are either retarded or deluded. Muslim rape gangs do exist but that is because they work on a more predatory basis. You can’t just treat your daughters like shit and provide them with no backbone and then just throw them into the world as if they wouldn’t get raped. Of course they will. The Muslims are no threat if you have a bit of spunk left in your scrotum. If you as an Aryan father stood up to a Musklm predator, believe me they would be quaking in their boots.
I agree.. The people of Rotherham have taken people as they find them too…. 1400 young girls drugged and gang raped..
The biggest child protection scandel in British history.
Oh and to make matters worse… There have still been no prosecutions, all swept under the carpet.. Can’t upset that Pakistani “community” can we now
Sure but they aren’t all child rapists. I agree that they will attack teenage girls if they are left unguarded but some of these people I mean I don’t have any young children but if I did I would look after them.But yes they are hungry for teenage girls like a dog on heat looking for a bitch in season.. You want to protect your teenage girls anyway because every animal and psycho is going to want to go after them. If I had a daughter in England right now I wouldn’t let her leave the house before the age of twenty and I would make sure that I turned her into the most badass opponent possible. I would also encourage her to leave the country rapidly because it isn’t going to get any better.
“Sure but they aren’t all child rapists”.. He says as Iran consider to legally reduce the age in which women (girls) can marry to 9
Have you read the history of Europe 1914 to 1945?
Honestly if you as a white Englishman are scared about a Muslim then you are being paranoid. I know Muslims and a I know very well white English men and I know who in charge. Trust me you won’t be dacing a broadside attack from Islam. Islam in the West knows its place and it doesn’t take much to knock it back into shape. I am a Christian and it is nothing to me to knock them back into shape.
You’re going have a serious awakening if you live long enough to see Sharia Law in the UK…
In the 1930s why would a German Jew be scared of a German Christian?
Another one in Dublin today, allegedly. Maybe someone in Ireland has more info, as opposed to just a post on Twitter;
”ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER FRENZIED STABBING IN DUBLIN CITY – EYE WITNESS REPORTS SAY IT WAS A FOREIGN MAN WHO KNIFED ANOTHER FOREIGNER ABOUT 20 TIMES
Extremely dark times ahead for our people until true patriots replace treasonous politicians.”
https://x.com/FergusPower1/status/1823007143680741578
Not entirely sure if this is related or it’s just a coincidence that this guy with a knife was apprehended. Maybe the attacker? Bit scarce on actual facts at the moment, but the surroundings appear to be the same as in the above clip. Any input on this incident appreciated;
https://x.com/TezTruth81/status/1823036261612875886
When immigrants rape and kill our children and bomb arenas we’re ordered we must not notice race or religion. When immigrants do something honourable we’re ordered we must notice race and religion. Funny that isn’t it?
Now here’s a bit of cheerful news at last:
Rapper who posted video about Tommy Robinson denies sharing ‘false information’ (msn.com)
“A rapper who posted a video online accusing Tommy Robinson of calling on people to attack mosques has appeared in court.
[Somalian-origin] Omar Abdirizak, 30, is charged with conveying information which was known to be false, intending at the time of sending to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to a likely audience.
In it, he alleges that Mr Robinson has been “running his mouth, saying ‘we’re going to attack the mosques’”.
District Judge David Wain bailed Abdirizak to appear at the magistrates’ court again on Friday, ordering him not to mention Mr Robinson or the EDL on social media without prior agreement of the court.”
Justice at last for Tommy, and for the British People, by the police and that excellent Judge David Wain.
O/T. This “far-right thuggery” baffles me. The “riot mayhem” in Southport has resulted in convictions for defendants who:
1. stole PC’s baton;
2. fly-kicked a police vehicle;
3. wielded a piece of wood.
I think we’re being gamed: the media and government are “bigging” this up so that behaviour which might elsewhere be dismissed as sour grapes by football supporters after a losing match is classified as either revolution, “far-right thuggery”. Any pensioner who is present at an incident or “likes” a comment or video of it will be sent to The Tower. It’s all aimed at smoothing the way to introduce laws suppressing dissent. Next we’ll be risking arrest for wearing a loud shirt.
The police yet again failed to provide any information about the attacker and also gave vague information about whether the incident was terror related.
Well done to the Daily Mail for filling in an obvious blank which the police could and should have filled in – why it was not terror related.
They did however say the attacker was not known to the victims according to other news reports I have seen.
If that is correct why would anyone do that?
Are there questions about mental health care which need to be addressed before more attacks of this kind occur.
Will Wes Streeting be called upon to ensure a review is undertaken urgently to identify all potentially violent mental health patients not previously flagged up and considered for sectioning under the Mental Health Act?
My immediate reaction to this event was “how convenient for the Authorities.”
A child attacked; a white attacker (no info about his origins); and a brown, Muslim hero.
It could almost have been staged.
As was mine. OTOH, actual circumstances, insofar they can be gathered from reading between the lines, don’t really lend itself to that: The so-called attacker was a weak and relatively small guy who was brandishing a knife, but didn’t mean to do any real damage as he would otherwise certainly have accomplished that. He got tackled from behind by two physically superior guys and that was essentially it. That’s a testimony to the inability (or unwillingness) of the Met to maintain public order in the streets of London the local population has long since grown accustomed to and there are very probably several such occurences per week, every week. We just don’t hear about them because it’s not usually politically convenient to let them turn into national stories.
Immediately we knew the name and by implication racial/religious identity of the hero – even a live interview.
The alleged stabber – we still know little. White male.
According to news reporter Charlie Peters outside court today the attacker is a Romanian national.
The BBC claims he’s a homeless Romanian.