"Probably the best of them was ITV's Lucy Letby: Beyond Reasonable Doubt? last summer. It did a fine job of meticulously explaining the evidence against her and why a growing body of experts believe that at the very least her conviction on the basis of what was gathered is unsafe, and at most that none of the babies were murdered by her, but were victims of a chronically understaffed and mismanaged unit that might have sought to scapegoat an individual for its failings."
"Its publicity has made much of the fact that it contains hitherto unseen footage of Letby's arrest at her parents' home. Her mother and father say they were unaware that it would be shown until Lucy's barrister told them. We will not watch it it would likely kill us if we did. When the footage is shown, you can hear her mother howl in distress as the police take Lucy away. It is an almost inhuman sound."
The Investigation of Lucy Letby is at least the fifth documentary produced after convictions in 2023 and 2024 on seven counts of murder and seven counts of attempted murder of babies at the Countess of Chester hospital. ITV's Lucy Letby: Beyond Reasonable Doubt? presented detailed evidence and raised questions that the convictions may be unsafe and that systemic failures could have led to scapegoating. The Investigation of Lucy Letby chooses a broader, more emotive telling and uses previously unseen arrest footage showing her parents' distress. The programme presents the police and prosecution case alongside accounts from police, people on both sides, friends, lawyers, media reports and interview tapes.
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