15 Sep 2024

UK barrister on the misguided aspects of the Lucy Letby case

From Sunday Morning, 11:20 am on 15 September 2024

A public inquiry has begun this week into how UK nurse Lucy Letby murdered seven babies and attempted to kill seven others.

Tim Owen KC is a defence lawyer who co-hosts a legal podcast, Double Jeopardy, which examined the case. He speaks to Jim about the parts of the debate that have been misguided. 

A handout image released by Cheshire Constabulary police force in Manchester on August 17, 2023, shows the November 2020 custody photograph of nurse Lucy Letby. Lucy Letby was on August 18, 2023, found guilty of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to murder six others at the hospital neonatal unit where she worked, becoming the UK's most prolific killer of children. Letby, 33 -- on trial since October 2022 -- was accused of injecting her young victims, who were either sick or born prematurely, with air, overfeeding them milk and poisoning them with insulin. (Photo by Cheshire Constabulary / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT " AFP PHOTO / Cheshire Constabulary/ Handout " - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

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