Baby murderer or scapegoat? Why is the Lucy Letby case so divisive?
Al Jazeera
Why are people contesting the evidence against the former UK nurse, convicted of killing seven newborns?
In a case that still shocks the United Kingdom, a 34-year-old former neonatal nurse named Lucy Letby was convicted last year of murdering seven babies in a hospital in the northeast English city of Chester and trying to murder six more.
In the six years, two trials and two appeal applications since her arrest, opinion remains fractured on whether Letby actually committed the crimes at the Countess of Chester Hospital from 2015 to 2016 that she is serving rare 15 whole-life sentences for.
The case has led to huge online speculation that the conviction was not based on reliable evidence and is a miscarriage of justice. This has caused great upset for the families of the babies she was convicted of harming.
In the meantime, an ongoing public inquiry into the deaths of the babies has started hearing evidence from parents and witnesses, some of whom said the hospital was woefully mismanaged.
On Thursday, the father of two triplet babies whom Letby was found guilty of murdering told the inquiry he had witnessed a doctor use a screen “to look up how to perform the chest drain and where the incisions and tubes should go. It looked as though they were following a tutorial and not as if they really knew what they were doing.”
