The Lucy Letby Scandal and The Collapse of Trust in Our Institutions
We may have reached a point, in England, where public trust in the institutions of the state is so low that those institutions will simply cave in. Perhaps de facto institutions – protection rackets, vigilante groups, private services – will replace them, or maybe they will be revolutionized before this occurs. But either way, this is the worst time for the English to lose all faith in the country's legal system, in the jury system, in the process of justice, and, indeed, in the taxpayer-funded National Health Service. Yet, with the results of a non-statutory inquiry this week into the case of the neonatal nurse Lucy Letby, who was convicted in 2023 of murdering 7 premature babies and attempting to murder 7 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, we may well be reaching that point.
As someone who was born 13 weeks early, I took a particular interest in this case and was especially horrified by it. Superficially, the prosecution presented a compelling case – neonatal deaths spiked and Lucy Letby was, so they misleadingly claimed, on shift when all of them occurred - and Letby even lost two subsequent appeals against her convictions. It never occurred to me that there could be such serious and fundamental faults with the case, though I confess that it occurred to colleagues of mine very quickly. I trusted at least this part of "the system." A competent crown prosecutor should've engaged in sufficient due diligence to uncover these potential gaping holes in His Majesty versus Letby. A competent defense team should've done likewise, but no.
Dr. Shu Lee, the Canadian scientist whose research was misinterpreted by prosecution witness Dr. Evans, had to hear about the case by chance for everything to unravel. There had to be intrepid campaigns by the Conservative MP Sir David Davis – who, unusually for an MP, is a science graduate - and the journalist Peter Hitchens. What an utter shambles! Of course, the crown prosecutor should've consulted Dr. Lee. Of course, at the very least, the defense should have contacted him. But, no! Useless, useless, useless... especially as this comes on top of a broader loss of faith in British institutions.
Since the UK's summer 2024 riots over the massacre of three little girls by a Rwandan at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class, the collapse of public trust in the UK's key institutions has come into stark relief. With the additional help of Elon Musk shining a piercing autistic light into these august organs of the state, a long-term process of cynicism has accelerated into what may well be something uncontrollable; a stolen Tesla that will inevitably crash and burst into flames.
As far back as 2009, with the MPs' expenses scandal – in which almost all MPs were found to be milking the expenses system, literally claiming for the cleaning of their castle moats – the British knew that almost all of their legislators were corrupt and on the make. Covid was an eye-opening moment for so many people. The political class, the Establishment in general, were revealed to be out of their depth and to be arrant liars, prepared to "cancel" people for telling what the political class knew to be the truth about the pandemic's origins.
The related Black Lives Matter riots highlighted the same two-tier policing of ethnic minorities that became absolutely clear in the wake of the Southport Massacre. The police's purpose is not to fairly uphold law and order; it is to uphold Multiculturalism and, thus, to protect privileged minorities from the scrutiny of the British people among whom they have so enormously come and are still coming. The elite are supported by this minority client class, who vote Labour (the party of the Woke Deep State who justify their power via their Woke morality), so anything that might lead to people questioning this morality, such as criticism of these minorities, must be severely punished. As Musk highlighted, the racially motivated gang-rapes of working-class, underage English girls at the hands of Pakistanis must, therefore, be suppressed. Hence, there is no trust in the police, the civil servants, or the social workers.
Even the legal system is corrupted, with these rapists receiving light sentences, such as a £41 victim surcharge, while emotional English women are jailed for tweeting their fury about what happened in Southport. But, surely, when it comes to crimes that do not relate to the regime's ideology – crimes in parts of the country that are almost 100% native English and which do not involve ethnic minorities or other client classes (such as gays) – surely, then, we can trust the English legal system, yes? And, much as it's over-stretched due to mass-immigration, we can trust "our NHS" as politicians increasingly insist on manipulatively terming it?
Clearly, we cannot. An impartial panel of international experts on neonatology, led by Dr. Shu Lee, found, on 4th February, that all of the baby deaths blamed on Letby were due to either natural causes or woeful medical incompetence, such as a doctor not inserting a tube correctly or a tube going into a baby without the appropriate infusion. Lee completely refuted the prosecution evidence that Letby had killed babies with oxygen injections that created air embolisms, arguing that the prosecution's medical expert, Dr. Evans, had misunderstood Lee's study on this issue. Letby's useless defense team had failed to call to the stand various medical experts who disagreed with the prosecution witness. The hospital, indeed, was so insanitary that in Canada it would have been shut down. Nurses were forced into administering procedures in which they were not trained, and it was difficult to get hold of doctors in emergencies. One wonders how many of these doctors, anyway, were actually British. Diagnoses were delayed. Sickly babies were not treated in time.
Indeed, one of the key witnesses and accusers in the trial, Dr Stephen Brearey, was himself accused of “sub-optimal care” resulting in a baby’s death in 2014. In effect, Letby was scapegoated for what was happening at an incompetently-run hospital rife with incompetent doctors and managers. Her conviction now means that parents increasingly don't trust medical staff to be left alone with their babies, creating further problems for the NHS.
So, what are we left with from this fiasco? The British taxpayer is compelled to pay for a service that not only entails massive waiting lists but is appallingly and dangerously run; a service which includes medics who make many serious mistakes, leading to the deaths of seven premature babies. The over-paid managers who run this service are so Machiavellian that they scapegoat an innocent nurse for their failings. The legal system is so useless – so "not fit for purpose" – that this nurse is jailed for the rest of her life based on flawed evidence, and the appeal judges are so inept that they can't, or won't, see this for what it is.
The entire process seemingly sent Letby mad. Disordered writings were found at her home in which she both confessed, and also didn't confess pleading “Why is this happening to me?”, to the killings. It seems Letby was utterly infatuated with a particular doctor whom she hero-worshipped. Perhaps she suffered from aspects of Borderline Personality Disorder, which I have discussed in depth in "Woke Eugenics," where you are emotionally dysregulated, take sexual risks, and become obsessed with a "special person" whom you see as your savior from your unhappy life. Under stress, such people can degenerate into "Borderline Psychosis."
But it is the psychological reaction of the British people that is more important. If Letby is indeed innocent, we will all feel guilty for having despised her so much, furious with those who made us do so, and we will rightly have very little confidence left in the legal system or the health service. If a right-wing backlash is happening, this will only augment it.
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I have witnessed two separate court cases against the NHS and on both occasions, when the NHS discovered the possibility of legal action, the NHS had a "computer failure" which resulted in the loss of all of the medical records of the patient, so that the claimant could not have that evidence in court. I would not trust the evidence of NHS.
"It never occurred to me that there could be such serious and fundamental faults with the case, though I confess that it occurred to colleagues of mine very quickly."
I'm glad this was acknowledged because there were many of us who spotted the patterns very early on in this case but, as is always the case, were dismissed (even by the 'based') as conspiracy theorists.
A lady (albeit a North American) responded to your recent note on this case saying "I really think this is a case of stupidity rather than malice..." which highlights the real issue here. I disagree that a 'collapse of trust in our institutions' or 'overpaid managers' is the problem, these along with other things you've listed here are merely symptoms of the problem.
The real problem is that lady who responded to your note, and the 100's of millions like her, who, even when confronted with a dead cat thrown on the table in front of them, still insist it's Hanlon's Razor.
Specifically regarding the clear travesty of justice perpetrated through the British court system I suggest that you invite the incredibly learned Graham Moore (Chairman of the English Constitution Society) to the Jolly Heretic. He would very much enjoy telling your audience how the Muslim Rape gang members could all very easily have been given mandatory life sentences without parole had they been correctly tried for torture. He was particularly interested in the Letby case also.