Slandering people who are concerned about Letby’s trial helps no one | Letters

It is unhelpful of Richard Baker KC to reprimand people for raising concerns that Letby’s conviction may have been unsafe, and to characterise them as malicious, or ignorant, or both (Lucy Letby conspiracy theorists ‘should be ashamed’, the inquiry said on 12 September).

It is possible that there has been a significant miscarriage of justice. It is possible that there has not. If so, then the families of the dead babies are ill-served by this pressure to stop any questioning of the verdicts. If not, then there still needs to be a serious questioning of the pressure on services that exposed extremely vulnerable patients to danger.

Slandering an individual nurse does not in itself help minimize the risk of such a terrible series of failures being repeated.
Rachel Rees
Leicester