Now my son towers above me and my daughter is preparing to leave home. It’s all so fast. And so precious.
For in the clatter around the conviction of Letby, and the increasingly hysterical outpourings of support for her by those convinced she is a victim in a miscarriage of justice, there seems no consideration of the actual victims. The seven tiny babies she was convicted of killing and the seven more she was convicted of attempting to kill.
But I cannot help but think that if the public had ever seen a single baby photo or shaky phone video of one of those tiny tots, still living, in the arms of a besotted mother, the Letby campaigners might be less absolute in their beliefs.
They might realise that this is a case about a trusted medical professional and what she did to sick babies in her care, and not about a powerful state and what it has done to a young nurse.
Children began dying in 2015 at the Countess of Chester Hospital while Nurse Lucy Letby was on duty (Photo: Cheshire Constabulary via AP)Of course if Letby had been seen attacking one of those babies we wouldn’t be here. But her convictions were based on circumstantial and medical evidence. And while that was sufficient to convince two separate juries (one charge went to a retrial) beyond all reasonable doubt, it seems no longer sufficient for a growing swathe of the public, mistrustful of science, the justice system, and the media that reports upon it.
They have also attempted to undermine aspects of medical evidence. And much has been made of the performance of Letby’s original defence team.
In an attention-grabbing spectacle, McDonald threw a press conference to announce the findings of 14 international experts who concluded the baby deaths were due to natural causes from bad medical care – entirely at odds with conclusions of the trial’s prosecution experts.
square MARK WALLACE
Our culture punishes people who speak out
Read MoreReputable figures including Dr Phil Hammond in Private Eye – with its long history of investigating miscarriages of justice – and Davd Davis MP joined those calling into question whether Letby had had a fair trial.
I could go through the arguments that led the court to convict Letby: to how the killings stopped when she came off night duty; to the notes she wrote admitting guilt; to the social media searches of grieving families she made, which she later claimed to have forgotten doing; to the fact she rejected the chance to defend herself in the box.
The algorithm has become judge and jury in this case, pushing viewers towards content that reinforces their view that Letby is a victim of “the system”. She is now a cause célèbre for so many feeling angry and disillusioned by that system (or more simply, by life). To them, she is a tragic illustration of the oppressed worker.
That feels a gross insult to the 97. Those were real victims of an establishment conspiracy of silence. The evidence was there to prove it. Now the evidence is there to prove Letby was guilty.
Alison Phillips was editor of the Daily Mirror from 2018-24; she won Columnist of the Year at the 2018 National Press Awards
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