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  • 33-year-old Lucy Letby was convicted on Friday of killing seven babies in the neonatal unit of a hospital in England.

  • A handwritten note found by police officers who searched her home after the arrest read "I killed them on purpose".

  • Letby will be sentenced on Monday and faces a very long prison term, and possibly a rare full life sentence.

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[-] PetteriSkaffari@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

As she did not confess in court, I'm keeping the option open that she could be innocent. We've had those cases before.

[-] sugartits@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Very unlikely here.

The death rate shot up at the hospital where she worked, and in every single suspicious case of death or near death of a baby, she was present. All 25 of them. I think the next closest was a nurse who was present for 7 of them.

When she stopped working there the suspicious deaths stopped. Deaths on that baby ward pretty much stopped completely actually. I think they had like one on that unit in the years following, compared to 3-4 month when Letby was there.

I'm not saying it's impossible she's innocent, in the same way it's not impossible for my ugly ass to get a date with Michelle Ryan. But it's really, really unlikely.

[-] Smurfpiss@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Missing the most fucked up part. She was having an affair with the doctor who would be called in during such events. She was obsessed with him and this was how she was ensuring he'd come to the rescue.

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Also missed that she was reported repeatedly by consultants who were essentially given a gag order by their bosses under the banner of "bullying" behaviour.

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