Side to her personality. And it was interesting to get her messages because precisely you could see how hypocritical she was pretending to be very good friends with the nurse and a few messages later on she was calling her incompetent and, you know, undermining everybody in the unit certainly was very gracious to her management who were extremely supportive of her and yet spent her time denigrating her management, saying that there was poor skill mix every single time that she was on shift. All of this provided perfect cover for what she was doing because people thought, well, yes, its true. We we all being stretched. We have babies that have special needs, but its difficult needs, but its difficult for people. Devious personalities have to look the part. Thats not thats not true. And that definitely wasnt true. She looked like The Girl Next Door who liked betting on horses, enjoyed herjob, was trying to be one of the best. But its all about control. Ive rarely come across a personalit
they were clearly a diligent and thoughtfuljury. it was the 22nd day of their deliberations today. and, in fact, they d spent more than 110 hours discussing these various counts that lucy letby was charged with. in terms of the defense case, they talked about all of this being circumstantial evidence. just talk us through what that means in practice and how the prosecution actually counteracted that. yeah, well, direct evidence, which is a case. in most cases, you have direct evidence, i.e., a witness sees a harm b. you didn t have that in this case. what you had was situational evidence, circumstantial evidence. you had b being harmed. and a, the only person that was in the room when b was harmed was lucy letby on every occasion. and so what you were saying is that one might be a coincidence, two might be unlucky, but when we re talking about several, a dozen or more incidents, there can only be one explanation, namely that she was responsible for the harm that was caused.