7 days ago
Lucy Letby: Who to Believe? review — a rigorous look at the evidence
Ask anyone — in the pub, in the bus queue and definitely on social media — and you would be hard pushed to find a person who doesn't have a view on Lucy Letby. Those claiming 'certainty' fall into one of two camps: the one who believes she is an evil baby killer, or the one who believes she is an innocent victim of a huge miscarriage of justice. The other tribe is the one that doesn't feel qualified to judge either way having not sat in court every day, pored over the medical reports or ever worked in a premature baby unit. What is certain is that the voices proclaiming her innocence amid a swirl of claim and counterclaim are growing louder.
Lucy Letby: Who to Believe? (BBC1) was an impressive, rigorous attempt to cut through the noise and the maze of information and take a calm, dispassionate look at the evidence. This is the third programme that the journalists Judith Moritz and Jonathan Coffey have made about Letby, as well as writing a book, and their proficiency showed when they were interviewing medical experts and Letby's new defence barrister Mark McDonald who, along with an international panel of experts, asserts that not only is there no evidence against Letby, there is no substantial evidence that any crimes took place. There are plausible, alternative explanations for the babies' deaths, they say.
