Lucy Letby (2024) - portrait with narration

Lucy Letby (born 4 January 1990) is a British former neonatal nurse who in 2023 was convicted of murdering seven infants and attempted murder of seven others, between June 2015 and June 2016. Lucy maintained innocence since her arrest, and was aware she was under investigation long before her trial, after she was transferred from active nurse duties to desk work. Following her conviction publications such as The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times and Private Eye published articles questioning Lucy’s guilt, including a Channel 5 documentary and many radio programmes and podcasts. Figures such as Peter Hitchens, Dr Richard Gill, Dr Michael Naughton, Sonia Poulton and many others joined Lucy’s close friends, colleagues and family in questioning her conviction - including MP David Davis, who pledged to investigate from the House of Commons. Notes that she had left might have been written under self-analytical stress, the babies stopped dying when Lucy was off-shift because they weren’t being brought on to the ward, the alleged poisoning is claimed to have been impossible to do, there was no motive and Lucy was demonstrably dedicated to her job. The full mainstream media demonisation seems in proportion to the not beyond reasonable doubt nature of her conviction - the more they pile on, the more the person maintaining innocence is likely to be innocent. The tragic case of Lucy Letby demonstrates this theory clearly.