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My sister paid really close attention to the case. A small portion of her many worries with it.
The thing is there were deaths when she wasn’t on shift too. It’s just that these weren’t judged (by the doctors who were accusing her) to be suspicious. It’s confirmation bias. When she was removed from the unit it was simultaneously down graded from NICU to a SCBU which should have been the case anyway as the consultants were paediatricians and not neonatologists so didn’t have the expertise or training to look after NICU patients. Also the problem of sewage leaking into their clinic room where they prepared feeds and medication was also fixed at a similar time.
There is another possibility that someone else WAS murdering babies and they stopped at the time she was removed from the unit to remove attention from themselves.
The trouble with doing a shift matrix to prove someone’s guilt is that 1. they only did it on the nurses and not the doctors. 2. they should do it for ALL deaths and not just the ones chosen by the accusers and 3. someone can do something at the end of their shift which leads a patient to collapse or die on the next shift as happened in the case of the stepping hill murderer who was injecting random infusion bags with insulin and then the patients would collapse hours or days later when he wasn’t around and they almost convicted an innocent nurse of that crime just because statistically she had been around the most when patients died.
My concern is mostly self interested in that if I ever happened to be around when lots of patients died and then happened to not be around when lots of patients didn’t die that’s enough evidence to send me to jail forever. Without anyone witnessing any wrongdoing on my part and with no evidence the patients were deliberately harmed. Anyway I could argue all day. I hope she wins an appeal
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This is some serious food for thought! Thanks for sharing.
There is another possibility that someone else WAS murdering babies and they stopped at the time she was removed from the unit to remove attention from themselves.
I said something similar to Miss689908 when the trial was ongoing. It would be the perfect crime to be committing under-the-radar murders and then stopping as soon as Letby is taken off the ward.
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Your sister's thinking is sound and understandable.
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To be devil's advocate, why was this not discussed at the trial? What am I missing? Or is it we need to get a conviction for this as it is in the news. Worry about an unsafe conviction later
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The "expert panel" however seemed to conclude that none of the babies were likely to have been murdered, but rather died from terrible care.
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My wife (also nurse for many years) said exactly the same thing and still maintains that view.