Why I believe Lucy Letby’s trial was unfair

Even Horace Rumpole could not have secured an acquittal for Lucy Letby. The more I look at this case, the more I suspect that there could never have been any other outcome than a conviction. I think a great cloud of emotion hung over that courtroom during the whole trial. I think that cloud spread outwards into the public mind before and during the long months of the trial. In my view, the actual prosecution of Ms Letby began on Thursday 5 July 2018, two days after she was arrested for the first time, and more than four years before she finally sat in the dock.

On that day, police officers dug up her tiny garden in a Chester suburb. Reporters were present to observe tools being carried through her modest semi for this excavation, and photographers were on hand to snap a constable in blue rubber gloves poking about in her gutters and drainpipes.