There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face,” observes the trusting King Duncan on the treachery of the Thane of Cawdor — a betrayal which will foreshadow the many ahead in Macbeth.
How horribly true that has proved in two cases casting their pall over the news in the past days. The Lucy Letby conviction on multiple counts of murder and attempted murder feels the more shocking, because the woman we see in photographs, cradling infants or drinking cocktails at a hen night at the height of her murder spree, looks not only normal, but downright attractive and pleasant.
