Luby Letby being questioned by police in Chester, England, in July 2018. Footage of the interview is included in a new Netflix documentary. Photograph: Cheshire Constabulary via Getty Images
The blurb for the latest in a long and growing line of documentaries on Lucy Letby (this one is entitled The Investigation of Lucy Letby and was released on Netflix last week) describes it as an insight into how “the horror unfolded”.
It’s not clear if the “horror” relates to the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of seven others in the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015-2016, for which Letby was convicted and is serving 15 whole-life terms. Or if it relates to the wrongful conviction of Letby, or to the ongoing horror experienced by the babies’ parents.
Legitimate reservations have been expressed about how this Netflix documentary was made, particularly the sensationalist use of police arrest and interview video recordings. But the substance of it and the other evidence that has emerged convinces me, as the former master of a busy Dublin maternity hospital, that t
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