This diagram was created by Chris Morris, who runs the brilliant YouTube channel Lucy Letby Analysis and is writing a book about Lucy’s case. It illustrates something that should concern anyone who believes in fair justice, and once you see it you cannot unsee it.
Look at what the investigation actually was. It was a closed loop.
The paediatricians told the police who the suspect was and gave them the dates to focus on. The police then restricted their entire investigation to those dates and that suspect. The paediatricians selected which cases to put forward. The police fed those dates and that suspect to Dr Dewi Evans, the prosecution’s expert witness. Dr Evans examined only the period he had been given, already with a named nurse in mind. He then told the police to go back and find out who had been on duty during that period. The police went back to the paediatricians, the very people who had launched the whole process, to answer that question. And the answer, of course, confirmed what the paediatricians had told them at the very start.
This is not an investigation. It is a circle. Every single step fed back into the assumption the paediatricians had planted at the beginning. No alternative suspects were considered. No alternative explanations for the deaths were seriously explored. The police’s own expert was working from a pool of cases the accusers had already cherry picked.
A former senior police officer who drew up the national guidelines for investigating deaths in healthcare settings has since described the Cheshire Police investigation as less of an investigation and more of an exercise in gathering information to prove a conclusion that had already been reached.
