NANA AKUA: It’s monstrous to claim that Lucy Letby’s ‘white privilege’ left her free to kill

It takes a special kind of evil to kill the little babies in your care.

But it takes a certain kind of mind to seize on Lucy Letby’s horrible crimes and push a deceptive racial discrimination agenda, creating tensions and prejudice.

Earlier this week, lawyer and political activist Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu published this angry and ill-literate tweet in the wake of the murderer’s conviction: “Lucy Letby is an example of how whiteness ideology has a stranglehold on Britain .

“They believed her tears/denials, even though evidence said otherwise, for no other reason than that she is white. A black or brown nurse would have been immediately reported to the police and dismissed for suspicion.’

The president of the Royal College of Nursing, Sheila Sobrany, echoed this bizarre claim, adding that one of the whistleblowing doctors was ignored because he was not white: “We need to stop denying that racism is a serious problem in the NHS, this doctor would have been listened to if he was white and Lucy Letby would have quit sooner if she wasn’t white… dr. Ravi Jayram was not heard or taken seriously.’

Earlier this week, lawyer and political activist Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu (pictured) published an angry and poorly written tweet in response to the murderer’s conviction.

Even women’s fashion magazine Glamor lent its insubstantial weight to this idiotic theory in a piece headlined, “Lucy Letby’s white privilege helped her commit murders in plain sight — and yes, she’s still benefiting from it.”

Set aside for a moment the breathtaking lack of judgment in using the grief of grieving parents to promote these absurd ideas.

No, what infuriates me is that in all three cases the individuals involved were clearly so desperate to take offense that they ignored the facts of the case.

Activist Mos-Shogbamimu and Sobrany of the RCN, respectively, suggested that Letby was allowed to offend for so long because she was white, while whistleblower Dr Ravi Jayram was disbelieved by Countess of Chester Hospital managers because he was of Indian descent.

Both overlooked one inconvenient fact: Four hospital consultants complained about Letby, and the first of them was the white head of the neonatal unit, Dr. Stephen Brearey.

It was Dr. Brearey who was held up for three months after requesting a meeting with hospital management and said he was made to feel like he was “the problem” whenever he raised concerns.

All counselors, regardless of race, came under pressure to keep their concerns quiet, and it became clear that the hospital managers were eager to end the situation, not because Letby had blond hair and blue eyes, but simply to protect her. the hospital’s reputation and, by extension, their own futures as well-paid NHS managers.

Dr. Stephen Brearey (pictured) was held up for three months after requesting a meeting with hospital management who said he was made to feel like he was ‘the problem’ when he raised his concerns

Only a fool would suggest that racism does not exist in Britain. But claiming that you see racism everywhere does not help, writes Nana Akua (photo)

I have a particular interest in the Letby story. My son was born early, at 28 weeks, and I spent three months with him in the neonatal intensive care unit and the special infant unit.

I have seen how vulnerable these children are and have seen firsthand how the system works.

Like other serial killers, Letby got away with her crimes for so long because she was highly manipulative and smart enough to know she left no trace.

She was “nice Lucy”: a seemingly angelic presence who lurked at her bosses, reportedly had a crush on one of the senior married doctors, and charmed worried parents – while murdering their children.

It is crystal clear that race played no role in the Letby case, despite some misguided claims. Conversely, it is not difficult to see how the fear of racism can make some criminal investigations slower and more complex.

Take the case of sex grooming in Rotherham, where politically correct social workers and the police were slow to act due to fear of being accused of racism. Try telling the teenage victims of the gangs that the law protects white people.

Fortunately, serial killers are rare in this country, and female killers even rarer.

There are still fewer cases of nurses being accused of murdering their patients. But in one, a white nurse, Rebecca Leighton, spent six weeks in jail in 2011 while investigating the murder of three patients at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, Greater Manchester – before the killer was revealed to be Vitorino Chua , a Filipino nurse. .

What answer do Mos-Shogbamimu and Sobrany — let alone Glamor magazine’s critical race theorists — have to answer this?

Only a fool would suggest that racism does not exist in Britain. But claiming that you see racism everywhere doesn’t help – even if it’s a good career move for some ‘anti-racist’ campaigners.