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Now is the worrying time—Woe! Woe! Behold!Armageddon and the four horsemen of the apocalypse:Famine, Pestilence, Death—And the other one. … Sometimes, you know, God can be so unimaginative. The Young Ones, Interesting (1
From all that terror teaches,From lies of tongue and pen,From all the easy speechesThat comfort cruel men,From sale and profanationOf honour and the sword,From sleep and from damnation,Deliver us, good Lord! G. K. Cheste
Trigger warning: this newsletter assumes readers are of sufficient maturity to understand and not be wounded by cultural references to cocaine, Starsky & Hutch, and physical money made out of paper. Also: these events ha
The investigation into the actions of Lucy Letby, the trial process and medical experts continues to face scrutiny and criticism, much of it ill-informed and based on a very partial knowledge of the facts and totality of
This is a follow on piece from Lucy Letby: waiver of privilege? It is mainly about waiver in a criminal context. The rules around waiver are more developed in the civil cases, since waiving privilege there is not quite a
In his summing up, Mr Justice Goss instructed the jury that they did not need to be sure precisely how Ms. Letby murdered the infants, as long as they were sure she did: “If you are sure that someone on the unit was deli
Take the following hypothetical scene, which describes Lucy Letby’s experience at the Countess of Chester Hospital: Internal investigation A hospital experiences a cluster of deaths and collapses materially in excess of
A leopard goes to the doctor.“Doc,” he says, “You gotta help me. Whenever I look at my wife, I see spots.”The doctor looks at him for a minute and says, “Well, what do you expect? You’re a leopard.”“I know that, Doc. But
In his book The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb presents the “ludic fallacy”: the mistake of applying unvarnished theoretical probabilities to real-world scenarios. Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free
Prelude: A daycare centre in New Zealand Peter Ellis was a childcare worker in Christchurch, New Zealand. A creative, flamboyant and somewhat uninhibited character, Ellis loved his job, put a lot of energy into programme
Show me a man who believes in conspiracy theories and I’ll show you someone who has never organised a surprise party. —Lee Harvey Oswald. The constant presence Ordinarily, when a defendant appears on 22 counts of things
The test results showing that insulin had been given to them was the only piece of concrete evidence of criminality throughout the whole of the prosecution’s case. It was the closest thing they had to a smoking gun and b
“Lucy Letby Conspiracy Theorists are Wrong”, Liz Hull, Daily Mail, July 5, 2024. R v Letby, Court of Appeal Judgment, 2 July 2024. Rachel Aviv’s, New Yorker investigation of 13 May 2024. Lucy Letby: initials of babies no
Serial murderers of any kind are vanishingly rare in Britain. Wikipedia lists fifty-five, since 1600. But so are miscarriages of justice. Wikipedia lists fifty-four, since 1255. Both narratives are highly improbable. Of
The collection of biases and cognitive gin-traps that can lead prosecutors — those who “prosecute” a particular theory of the world — to stick with it, however starkly it may vary from available evidence and common sense
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