Last night Channel 5 screened a documentary which looked critically at the evidence in the case of nurse Lucy Letby, who was convicted of seven murders and seven attempted murders of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital intensive care unit during 2015-16.
While many have raised concerns about the evidence following her most recent conviction on July 2nd 2024, my colleague Scott McLachlan (along with statistician Richard Gill) was raising legitimate concerns about the case well before Lucy’s first trial ended in August 2023. At that time nobody else was raising such concerns. An interview I did with Scott shortly after the first conviction was watched by over a million people on X, YouTube and Rumble.
Scott is a Lecturer in Digital Technologies for Health at Kings College London in the Division of Digital Health and Applied Technology Assessment within the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care. In addition to his PhD in computer science he has extensive training in law and nursing and has a forensic knowledge of the case. Qualifications that speak for themselves.
My own interest in the case focuses on the “probability of coincidences and clusters”; it was the “too many deaths occurring when Lucy was on duty for it to be a coincidence” narrative that was a major driver of the case against her. Using Bayesian probability analysis, I had previously written about how such clusters of deaths are likely to occur without any malpractice and had provided such evidence to support the case for appeal in a similar case (Ben Geen).
When the company making the documentary for Channel 5 approached Scott and I to be interviewed for it we were happy to oblige. It was agreed filming would take place in my house. A crew came and filming lasted all day. Here Scott is being prepared for his interview.
At that point the documentary producers were very happy with our interviews.
However, on August 2nd Scott and I got phone calls informing us that, because of some of our views expressed on X (Twitter), they were cutting our interviews from the documentary. Views which had nothing to do with the Lucy Letby case and our investigation of it. No specific examples were given.
What is more important in a documentary whose strapline was “Unpacking and questioning the evidence used to convict neonatal nurse Lucy Letby”? That our investigation, prescient and hitherto considered crucial enough to include, is heard, or omitted due to what can only be described as the chilling vagaries of cancel culture? One of our chief concerns surrounding Lucy’s trial is that evidence that should have been heard, was not, potentially leading to a miscarriage of justice. It is ironic therefore, that the makers of this documentary have sought to do the same. It illustrates just how pernicious cancel culture has become.
In my phone call, I said I hoped they would reinstate our interviews, as it is vital that all the concerns about Lucy’s trial be heard. If they did not, I was prepared to write about it publicly and so I am. It goes without saying, Scott and I would be happy to help in any way we can to see that justice is eventually done.
For anybody who wants an idea of the material Scott provided, and which was edited out of the documentary, here is an interview I did with him while the crew were setting up their equipment:
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I wonder if it’s possible for any such organisation not to turn into a runaway train of self seeking pursuit of power and money
Many religions have accumulatrd unbridled, overwhelming power in the past. For example, the Catholic Church in Europe for many centuries seemed almost omnipotent.
Something over time diminished its power but not before an awful lot of harm and misery was inflicted (together with some good, I suppose).
Things look pretty bleak to me as I think we are entering an era of despotism that will almost certainly persist for at least the rest of my life.
That some Ethiopian guy with huge power ambitions is going to potentially have power over me in a non insignificant way is just very chilling.
I think the worst of it will come after I am gone. I think our civilisation will hobble on for a few more generations before final collapse into awfulness and hopefully a rebirth.
We are not looking at generations tof we are looking at perhaps the next 15 – 20 years.
You may be right. In a few generations white people will be in a minority in Europe and I don’t think there’s any road back from there.
Agreed
Who within the W.H.O. is known for pushing for the ‘hair on fire’ approach to activity?
‘There is, however, one message that must cut through: we have got to be quicker and do better when it comes to novel disease outbreaks.’
‘Knowledge must be shared in hours and days, not weeks, and knowledge must lead to action.’
‘I have worked in infectious diseases for 25 years and knew every day mattered, because of exponential spread. I knew we had to start running for our lives with the vaccine.’
And why?
‘Stephane urgently needed cash’
This is the venal little so and so, Jeremy Farrar, who caused the panic over a common cold coronavirus in the first place, claiming it was, essentially, similar to SARS but easier to transmit!:
‘It is not SARS. The virus is in a similar family as SARS but this looks different … and the difference is probably it is easier to pass between human beings. I think we can expect many more cases in China and many more cases in other parts of the world.’
‘Davos changed everything’ (!)
https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/21180503/INQ000208834.pdf
Farrar at Davos!
He is now chief scientist at the W.H.O. on a six figure tax free stipend….and this is, no doubt, where all the silly pettiness, petulance (and, no doubt, stamping of tiny little feet) is coming from also.
Oh for heaven’s sake!
Farrar is far more dangerous than “the stamping of tiny little feet.” He is a direct and murderous threat to humanity.
According to investgative journalist Alex Newman (see video link below), built into this Pandemic Treaty power grab by the WHO is the same system that is being used by the Climate Change Scam Gang to push their agenda … the ‘Conference of the Parties’ system or COP.
So this ‘watering down’ of the Pandemic Treaty will not last for too long. The WHO plus Billy Goat Gates plus Big Pharma will convene a Conference of the Parties whenever they want and declare that the treaty isn’t working or isn’t strong enough or isn’t wide ranging enough and they will push through ammendments for an even bigger power grab.
(Having dealt with this WHO issue, Mr Newman goes on to highlight what the UN is planning for us in the upcomming UN General Assembly in September. Something called ‘The Summit for the Future’. This is a major power grab by the UN led, of course, by Comrade Ayatollah Guterres).
https://rumble.com/v4qgrbh-un-plans-tyrannical-future-for-you-alex-newman.html
I am confused. There are those who say there never was a “covid” virus. It was just a normal seasonal cold/flu that killed the normal,number of vulnerable and elderly. And that the hoax virus was used to implement lockdowns, school and business closures, stay at home mandates, masks, ventilator use, midazolam and morphine and the icing on the cake, the “covid” poisonous jabs that rewarded all those involved in its manufacturing, distribution, and administration. Big pharma, scientists, doctors, all health care institutions and the wonderful politicians in our governments who pushed HARD to ensure everyone took the vaxx. What a sick world we live in now.