So those doctors sat with you. They poured out their worries. Did they talk about lucy letby . No, no. They talked actually at the time they didnt name anybody. What they talked about was in what they told when they contacted the chief constable, the fact that a nurse had been moved. They didnt actually name the nurse to me because i was at that meeting. I didnt have a lot of time because i had to make a decision on whether we were commencing an investigation or not. So i was focused on actually what does this mean medically . They told me that somebody had been moved and all the events had stopped. But i wasnt really drawn into that that much at that time. My first thoughts were as an sio, that if i had been doing something and Somebody Else had been moved, then i would stop as well. So, you know, i didnt get drawn into much about what that meant. I was more focused at that point on what has actually happened. So thats what our line of investigation was going to focus on initially. So
but why is a question that i don t think i want to consider an answer. lucy letby, of course, spent days in the witness box. i wonder what you made of her performance in the witness box. i thought she was extremely cold, unemotional. it struck me that whenever there were pictures of her, you know, drawings of her being shown, it was always with a tissue wiping her eyes. that was a very rare sight in the witness box. certainly talking about babies, there s only one. it s baby e in respect of whom she cried and probably because she d been caught, but all the others. it was very striking to see that when she was talking about her former life as a nurse, talking about her house, she was in floods of tears. soon after that, her own counsel moved on to talk about the bereavement pack of baby a.