53 h. ago PETER HITCHENS: I'm pleased public sentiment on Lucy Letby has shifted

How public opinion can change. Do you remember reporters rushing from the Manchester courthouse in 2023, breathlessly exclaiming, 'She's guilty!', moments after Lucy Letby's conviction?

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58 h. ago Lucy Letby: Who to Believe? review – just when you thought this case couldn’t get any more confusing

Panorama’s new investigation into the convicted nurse is muddled and stuffed with conflicting theories. It feels more like radio phone-in bickering than serious journalismIn May 2024, the New Yorker published an article with the headline “A British nurse was found guilty of killing seven babies. Did she do it?” Access to the online version of Rachel Aviv’s piece was banned in the UK due to reporting restrictions, with Letby’s retrial on an additional count of attempted murder then imminent. Rules aside, asking whether Letby was in fact innocent also felt taboo at the time, a pursuit for social media conspiracy theorists. Fast forward 15 months, and “did she do it?” is merely par for the course when it comes to the case, with even experts cited by the prosecution apparently unconvinced of Letby’s guilt.This new Panorama comes hot on the heels of an ITV documentary that aired earlier this month, Lucy Letby: Beyond Reasonable Doubt?. That programme focused on holes in the evidence that...

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60 h. ago Expert's new Lucy Letby 'smoking gun' theory claims evidence 'proves she's innocent'

While Lucy Letby remains in prison serving over a dozen whole-life sentences, new evidence unearthed has cast the entirety of the prosecution's case into doubt, an expert has said

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66 h. ago Malqueridas review – blurry phone footage takes us inside Chile’s prisons with incarcerated mothers

Video shot by inmates opens the doors on the often painful realities of having children in the country’s jailsThis documentary about motherhood in Chile’s prison system is edited down from 4,000 photos and nearly 2,000 videos shot entirely on mobile phones by inmates of the country’s largest women’s jail. Phones are banned, so the images are often fuzzy and blurred, clips ending abruptly – sometimes with a hiss of “Hide the phone!” or “The guard is coming!”. At times, it can be hard to make sense of what is happening on screen. The voiceover is spoken by Karina Sánchez, who spent more than six years in prison, and she also voices the experiences of other incarcerated women. It’s not immediately clear she is telling multiple stories, however, so the voiceover becomes mildly disorientating.It’s estimated that 95% of women in Chile’s prisons are mothers, and their children can stay with them in jail until they turn two years old. A woman describes staying awake all night the night befo...

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68 h. ago When is Panorama: Lucy Letby Who to Believe? on TV? BBC start time and what to expect

Lucy Letby will be the subject of BBC’s Panorama this week 📺

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3 d. ago After a torrid 100 days, Germany’s Friedrich Merz is mocked as a ‘dead man walking’. He must fight back | John Kampfner

With the AfD surging, it could soon be the largest party here. But, if he acts now, that dark scenario need not come to passJohn Kampfner is the author of In Search of Berlin and Why the Germans Do It BetterThe passing of the 100-day milestone for any world leader usually denotes the end of their honeymoon period. Friedrich Merz has not been able to enjoy even a single day of grace, beginning with the very moment he was supposed to be elected Germany’s chancellor but wasn’t. On 6 May, as Angela Merkel watched from the visitors’ balcony, the Bundestag voted and declined to approve its new leader. For a few hours, chaos ensued, until the second round of voting saw his chancellorship approved, so the swearing in could proceed.It was a symbolic act of defiance, and because it was a secret ballot, it wasn’t clear how many of the 18 dissenters came from Merz’s Christian Democrats (CDU) or from their new coalition partners, the Social Democrats (SPD). But it cast a shadow over the new admi...

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3 d. ago Baby killer Constance Marten ‘target for rude awakening’ after ‘sneering at inmates'

Constance Marten behaves like she is 'above the jail and everyone in it' a prison source claimed. The murderer mum-of-four is locked up in HMP Bronzefield in Surrey as she awaits sentencing.

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3 d. ago 4 stabbings, 1 shot dead, and daylight rape among crimes in violent London week

4 stabbings, 1 shot dead, and daylight rape among crimes in violent London week  My London

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4 d. ago ‘I was like a tornado going through men’s lives’: meet the people who can’t stop getting married

From the divorce lawyer on wedding eight to the 85-year-old in love with bride five – the hopeless romantics who keep saying ‘I do’Forty-two per cent of the married couples you know are destined to divorce, according to the latest UK statistics, but we still buy into the idea that a wedding is a happy ending. The story we like to tell, culturally, about romantic love is straightforward: that there is just one person out there for everyone, and that, once you have found that person, you will be happy every day until one of you is dead. So what about people who rack up multiple marriages? The famous stories tend to have a whiff of madness and glamour about them. There is Elizabeth Taylor, who was married eight times (twice to Richard Burton). The other, bloodier, example that springs to mind is Henry VIII.To be married and divorced multiple times requires a strange mixture of romanticism and practicality about love. Saying “until death do u...

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4 d. ago Iconic TV star shockingly admits he wants to 'grab women by the t***ies' in bizarre defence of Gregg Wallace after Masterchef host's axe amid sexual misconduct probe

The iconic actor, 76, who said his own past behaviour would 'land him in prison' today and claimed 25 years ago everyone 'everyone' was acting inappropriately.

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4 d. ago 'My husband started a miracle drug trial, within days he was dead'

The 76-year-old's widow says his death 'can't be in vain'

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5 d. ago Lucy Letby’s hospital slammed for A&E failings over ‘unsafe’ corridor care that left elderly patients delirious

Eldery patients were left in ‘dark and noisy’ corridors in trust’s ‘gridlocked’ A&E

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5 d. ago Baby killer Constance Marten compares prosecutors to Harry Potter Dementors in prison diatribe

Constance Marten has complained about her treatment during her Old Bailey manslaughter trial

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6 d. ago Emergency care at Lucy Letby hospital falls short of legal standards, CQC finds

Countess of Chester receives urgent warning notice over ‘visibly dirty equipment’ and routine corridor careEmergency care at the hospital where Lucy Letby worked is falling far short of legal standards, the healthcare watchdog has found, with routine corridor care and “critical gaps” in sepsis treatment.The Countess of Chester hospital, in north-west England, was issued with an urgent warning notice after inspectors found “repeated breaches” of regulations in its emergency care unit. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago 'Funny and quirky' mum found dead day after heartbreaking text to crisis line

Jessica Smithson was found dead by her father in her own home – having carried out everything she warned of

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7 d. ago Lucy Letby 'very likely' innocent, Peter Hitchens declares on new Mail podcast after release of explosive ITV documentary

Lucy Letby's case must be immediately 'reopened in the courts', Peter Hitchens has argued following the release of a documentary that raises serious questions about evidence used to convict the nurse.

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8 d. ago Man accused of murder bought woman can of cider days before she was found dead in his shed, trial hears

Christopher Barlow is accused of the murder of Mariann Borocz

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8 d. ago Friend of baby killer Lucy Letby admits 'I feel so much guilt'

Despite being convicted acrosss two trials of murdering seven babies, Lucy Letby's childhood pal is convinced of her innocence, and she opened up about the 'guilt' she feels

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8 d. ago 'I was baby killer Lucy Letby's friend but now feel so much guilt'

A childhood pal of Lucy Letby has decided to stick by her friend, and she recently described harbouring feelings of guilt ever since she was convicted of the shocking crimes

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8 d. ago Childhood friend of baby killer Lucy Letby says she 'feels so much guilt'

A childhood friend of Lucy Letby claimed the former nurse was innocent in a new ITV documentary where she spoke about her close relationship with the convicted baby killer

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