The Letby Case

[SueEllen]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/former-cab...193710771.html

What do they know? They're only statisticians. Bloody amateurs.

The prosecution gave data to the jury but didn't call any expert witnesses who were statisticians.

The reason for this was other cases where there were miscarriages of justice due to the use of expert witnesses who are statisticians.

However the defence didn't call any expert witnesses who were statisticians either. This bit is the odd part as the defence should have been throwing reasonable doubt on the prosecutions case.

[xoggoth]

You do wonder about some cases, how some things were not considered in court. Rather similar case, involving supposed infant murders here:

Kathleen Folbigg’s children likely died of natural causes, not murder. Here’s the evidence my team found (theconversation.com)

The case against her was overturned after many years fortunately:

Everything to Know About the Kathleen Folbigg Case | TIME

She too made supposedly incriminating diary entries:

Kathleen Folbigg diary entries not an admission of guilt, inquiry hears - ABC News

[xoggoth]

PS Back to x silly mode. A thread by me getting a few posts. Wow!

[SueEllen]

You do wonder about some cases, how some things were not considered in court. Rather similar case, involving supposed infant murders here:

Kathleen Folbigg’s children likely died of natural causes, not murder. Here’s the evidence my team found (theconversation.com)

The case against her was overturned after many years fortunately:

Everything to Know About the Kathleen Folbigg Case | TIME

She too made supposedly incriminating diary entries:

Kathleen Folbigg diary entries not an admission of guilt, inquiry hears - ABC News

Cases where it is your own multiple children are different from cases where you are caring for different non-related children.

[xoggoth]

Obviously genetics has nowt to do with Letby case but there are similarities in that scientific evidence was ignored and a diary was used in conviction.

[SueEllen]

Obviously genetics has nowt to do with Letby case but there are similarities in that scientific evidence was ignored and a diary was used in conviction.

Why didn't she put up a defence?

BTW The Guardian keeps referring to the number of neonatal deaths in the unit over the years but put different numbers in different articles.

[ladymuck]

Why didn't she put up a defence?

BTW The Guardian keeps referring to the number of neonatal deaths in the unit over the years but put different numbers in different articles.

That's the high quality journalism one expects from the Grauniad.

If there is genuine reason for doubt then it sounds like her defence team did a poor job (or didn't think she was worth defending). Makes you wonder why she didn't change her legal team but it's also possible that she couldn't afford better representation?

[Lance]

Like most people on the internet I have no specialist knowledge of either the law, or the medicine in this case.
Unlike most people on the internet, I understand my lack of knowledge and have no opinion on the facts of the case.

However...... The idea that there has been a miscarriage of justice, appears to stem from the USA, and the evidence they use is the fact that the UK press have not reported lots of stuff they cannot.
On that basis, I suggest that her innocence is just another conspiracy theory.

[xoggoth]

It wuz a giant lizard what dun it.

[WTFH]

It wuz a giant lizard what dun it.

King Charles?