You made your PR film all ready to go for the conviction.
But that was a mere taster. You then did a deal with Netflix. They lit you really well and you looked really cool.
And you chose to give them exclusive traumatic bodycam footage, not used in court. (2/9)
You did not, however, give Netflix any answers to questions such as:
1. Why didn't you treat the COCH doctors as potential suspects?
2. Why, as investigators, did you believe them unquestioningly?
3. Why did you not convene a panel of experts as recommended by the NCA? (3/9)
4. Why did you initially recruit only a long-retired paediatrician who was not licensed to practice by the GMC?
5. Why did you arrest & handcuff Lucy Letby at dawn 3 times when she had offered to talk voluntarily?
6. Why was she interviewed by the family liaison officer? (4/9)
7. Why did you tell parents in the summer of 2017 you were investigating a nurse at the hospital, 2 days after you opened Operation Hummingbird?
8. Why did you NOT want to talk to parents who had had bad experiences at the NNU AFTER Lucy Letby was removed? (5/9)
9. Did you follow the guidelines laid down in the manual for Investigating Deaths In Healthcare Settings? Did you know there even was such a manual?
10. Why would you not talk with an ex-COCH ANNP who wanted to tell you about multiple systemic problems on the unit? (6/9)
11. Why did you engage the services of statistician Jane Hutton only to later drop her and say you were not pursuing that line of enquiry?
12. Why, later in your PR film, did you nevertheless boast of your statistical analysis which showed Lucy was "always there"? (7/9)
I'm sure there are many more questions the man who wrote the manual for investigating healthcare deaths would like the answers to. But those 12 would be a start.
Each day you ignore them, trust in British policing - and the safety of Lucy's convictions - is further eroded. (8/9)
You can end this. Open up your log books, your full documentation.
Let independent policing experts see if due process was indeed followed, as you claim.
In the meantime, feel free to watch my new film, the one Netflix perhaps should have made. (9/9)
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10. The prosecution said Lucy searched for the families on Facebook.
Lucy herself said she was naturally curious about people.
Only around 1% of all her searches related to the families.
9. The prosecution also said she took home scribbled handover notes related to the babies. Again, only a tiny percentage related to those in the trial.
Nurses report taking these home in uniform pockets is common.
8. The prosecution expert witness Dewi Evans has changed his mind regarding his own original theory for Baby C - death by air injected into the stomach.
He now says the prosecution barrister, the police, CPS, judge and jury all got it wrong.
20. When Lucy was removed from the unit it was simultaneously downgraded. They took fewer and less vulnerable babies. Consultants rounds went from 2 a week to 2 a day.
19. When the unit was downgraded from level 2 to level 1, the hospital’s own lawyer advised that “the mortality rate will drop significantly in any event”.
As their care improved, babies would stop dying.
18. Another hospital lawyer told the trust that the failure to give one mother antibiotics was “indefensible”.
The parents were to take action against the hospital, but this was cancelled after Lucy’s arrest.
39. When hospital management went to Cheshire Police, they told them that their own inquiries hadn’t found any evidence to support the doctors’ allegations.
38. Days later, Dr Ravi Jayaram told the police that he walked in on Lucy standing doing nothing as a baby desaturated. The police duly opened their investigation.
But weeks earlier, Jayaram told his colleagues Lucy had first called for help.
Dr Steve Watts, the ex-UK policing head of investigating deaths in healthcare settings, explains that one week into the start of Operation Hummingbird, the National Crime Agency gave advice to Cheshire Police on how to handle such a huge and complex investigation. (2/15)
The NCA suggested Cheshire Police appoint a panel of experts including a:
Forensic pathologist;
Neonatal pathologist;
Forensic / clinical toxicologist;
Experienced neonatal nurse:
Experienced neonatal medical expert;
Obstetrician;
Medical statistician. (3/15)