Parents of Lucy Letby say watching Netflix show ‘would kill them’ and is ‘complete invasion of privacy’

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1. So you don’t have to click :

   The 36-year-old nurse was at the home of her parents in Hereford in June 2019 at the time of the arrest.

   Letby’s parents, John and Susan Letby, said they will not watch the documentary, saying: “It would likely kill us if we did.”
   Body camera footage from police – included in the Netflix trailer – shows officers arriving at the family home in search of Letby, where she is located wearing her pyjamas in her bedroom.
   Letby is seen sitting up in bed, looking confused, before police explain they are arresting her on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.

   She is then led away in her dressing gown.

   Letby’s parents have also claimed the chief investigating officer in their daughter’s case, Detective Superintendent Paul Hughes, “seemed to have a deep hatred” of them.
   “Why is Paul Hughes, with whom we always co-operated fully, allowed to show the world what took place in our house that morning and Netflix not even have the decency to tell us?”
   Letby was convicted last August of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of seven others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016.

   She was sentenced to life.
   The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which deals with potential miscarriages of justice, are currently considering the case.
   John and Susan Letby, the parents of nurse Lucy Letby, arriving at Manchester Crown Court in 2023. They have said watching the new documentary on their daughter would “likely kill” them.

   In January, police confirmed that she faced no further criminal charges after further investigation into the deaths of two infants and the attempted murder of seven others.

   The feature-length documentary will be hosted on Netflix.
   The production claims to feature further unreleased footage of Letby during her arrests and police questioning, as well as interviews with police, experts and lawyers from the case.
   The couple said that although news coverage had already been severe, the Netflix documentary “is on another level”, expressing concern that their property might become “a tourist attraction”.
   “We had no idea they were using footage in our house. We will not watch it — it would likely kill us if we did.
   “It is a complete invasion of privacy of which we would have known nothing if Lucy’s barrister had not told us.”

2. There is something very weird about this case. I’m not one for conspiracy theories, but so much about it doesn’t make sense, and I think it’s clear there’s more to the case than is being reported.

   A documentary about the case right now, while there are still so many unanswered questions, doesn’t feel right.

3. Probably shouldn’t have killed those babies then I guess 

4. Lucy Letby is very likely innocent. Her case echoes the Lucia de Berk case in the Netherlands in just about every aspect. A toxic combination of misogyny and circumstantial “evidence” manipulated to confirm biases, and prosecutors doing everything in their power to avoid losing face.

5. There is no way in hell this woman is innocent, people who think she is are deluded.

   I look forward to another ban for my opinion.

6. There’s a parallel universe where Harold Shipman was an attractive young blonde and he had his own truther movement.

7. Regardless of the context behind this case, the police handing the body cam footage to netflix to benefit commercially without the consent of those in it is wrong, especially given that it was filmed inside a private residence.

   Obviously there is a need for body cams, and the police using it for internal disciplinary measures, as well as using footage as evidence in court is all entirely appropriate. But the fact that you have no choice in being filmed means it’s not ok that footage can be licensed for commercial use without the explicit permission of the people in the video.

8. If my memory serves me right, this footage of her arrest is nothing new? I’m sure I saw it on the news when she was convicted. That’s when they usually lift the media embargo on this kind of footage.

9. Letby’s guilty. It should not be a source of entertainment. No-one should be profiting from the tragedy. If anyone should be upset it’s the families of the babies involved.

10. True crime media is bottom of the barrel trash for bottom of the barrel people

    It’s fucking gross.

11. She did it and never understood why so many people think she didn’t

12. Your daughter slaughtered innocent babies. They would have been primary school kids today.