Is Lucy Letby innocent? Or, to put it another way, is there now enough reasonable doubt to declare her conviction unsafe? This documentary’s answer to the second question could hardly be clearer: yes.
Letby was declared to be the biggest child serial killer in modern Britain, though she could yet go down in history as the subject of our era’s most serious miscarriage of justice. Public opinion, media mythology and the law turn as slowly as an oil tanker. Letby could walk free … or she could end up the subject of unending and fruitless debate, in a kind of permanent standoff with her accusers, like the Menendez brothers in the US, contentiously convicted of killing their parents in 1989 and still in prison.
