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Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @debbiekennett.bsky.social · Aug 22

I saw that article yesterday and shared it on Twitter and Facebook. (I don't tend to be very active here.) I'm not sure I agree with some of the author's comments.

Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @debbiekennett.bsky.social · Aug 22

An outstanding, empathetic long-read article on the tragic case of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon. Like the writer I've always wondered why this couple were prosecuted and brought to trial in the first place. Parents who lose a child deserve compassion not punishment. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Clair Wills · The Price of Safety: Constance Marten’s Defiance

The trials of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were held to determine their criminal responsibility for their daughter...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @debbiekennett.bsky.social · Aug 13

A very interesting interview with Anouk Curry, the producer of the recent highly acclaimed ITV documentary on the Lucy Letby case. youtu.be/xDu0nYfZKz4?... #LucyLetby

Lucy Letby documentary producer: the alternative theories and what happens next | The Daily T

YouTube video by The Telegraph

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · Aug 4

The ITV documentary about Lucy Letby is very good. Old school, public interest broadcasting which assumes the intelligence and the conscience of its audience. Anyone with the slightest interest in the case should watch it.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · Aug 6

➡️ Read all previous parts of our special report into the Lucy Letby case online: www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...

Special Report: The Lessons of the Lucy Letby Case

After Lucy Letby was convicted in August 2023 of murdering seven babies, a number of experts contacted Eye columnist MD because they

www.private-eye.co.uk

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Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @debbiekennett.bsky.social · Aug 12

So have I. There's nothing wrong with what Shoo Lee. I've had enough of your rudeness. I'm now going to block you. Bye bye.

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Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @debbiekennett.bsky.social · Aug 12

What are you on about? He submitted an updated paper which went through the peer review system and was accepted for publication. That's how scientific publication works!

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Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @debbiekennett.bsky.social · Aug 12

None of the parents had any suspicions with Letby at the time. All the concerns raised at the trial are done through the lends of hindsight bias and because the parents been told by the police that their child had been murdered. They weren't to know that the police were incompetent .

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Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @debbiekennett.bsky.social · Aug 12

I've read the lawyers' responses and it's clear that there's a lot they don't understand They are representing the families very badly by refusing to engage with the new evidence. It's so sad for the families. They deserve the truth.

Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @debbiekennett.bsky.social · Aug 12

Shoo Lee was not instructed by Letby's lawyers. He and the other experts worked pro bono. He was simply enraged by the way his research was misrepresented by Dewi Evans and the CoA judges. You might want to read up on peer review to understand how it works.

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Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @debbiekennett.bsky.social · Aug 12

And none of the parents saw any problems at the time. Any self-respecting lawyer would engage with the new evidence but as far as I'm aware the families' lawyers still haven't asked for the reports from the world-leading experts.

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Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @debbiekennett.bsky.social · Aug 12

So you're not shocked at the conflict of interest? My heart goes out to those poor parents but they've been gaslit from the start by the police and the lawyers. Some of them had even commenced legal proceedings against the hospital for negligence.

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Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @debbiekennett.bsky.social · Aug 11

It's shocking isn't it that such a conflict of interest exists. I tried writing to the Thirlwall Inquiry to alert them but they didn't seem to think it was anything of concern to them and it is was up to the lawyer.

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Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @debbiekennett.bsky.social · Aug 11

I've given up trying to debate with him. He resorts to nasty and unwarranted insults. I've now blocked him. He seems to be hijacking lots of threads here. Despite the denials I wonder if he is in fact Dewi Evans.

Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @debbiekennett.bsky.social · Aug 11

The mother says in her Thirlwall testimony that she got her own phone records. The calls to the parents were logged and the mother's times are one hour out with the documentary records.

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Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @debbiekennett.bsky.social · Aug 11

This is an excellent briefing paper on the junk science and shoddy statistics used in the Lucy Letby case. It is written by 18 experts, some of whom have not spoken out before. The paper was first published on 1 May 2025. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bxrjy...

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Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @debbiekennett.bsky.social · Aug 11

The mother requested the data from the phone company and such data is always provided in UTC time. Why are you so rude and making false accusations about people telling lies?

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Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @debbiekennett.bsky.social · Aug 10

I should have said GMT+1 (ie British Summer Time). The failure to allow for the clocks changing accounts for the discrepancy.

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Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @debbiekennett.bsky.social · Aug 9

You are trolling me. I see no point in engaging with an anonymous account who presumably has a vested interested in upholding the verdict. You need to do your homework and read up on the evidence.

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Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @debbiekennett.bsky.social · Aug 9

This is a full list of all the experts who have spoken out about the case. Note the long list of experts who have spoken up for the defence. Not a single expert has come forward to support Dewi Evans. jollycontrarian.com/index.php?ti...

Lucy Letby: those experts in full

As some kind of public service I am running a list of experts who have made public statements about Lucy Letby’s case since Rachel Aviv’s, New Yorker investigation of 13 May 2024. This includes expert...

jollycontrarian.com

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Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @debbiekennett.bsky.social · Aug 9

What evidence? The police had nothing on her at all. I have a paper shredder. It does make me a murderer.

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Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @debbiekennett.bsky.social · Aug 9

Can you seriously support a doctor who thinks it's possibly to kill a baby with "a dollop of air"?

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · Aug 9

Key genetic differences involved in the immune and nervous systems have been found in people with ME/CFS

www.newscientist.com/article/2491...

Key genetic differences found in people with chronic fatigue syndrome

People with chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis, appear to have eight genetic signals that differ from those without the condition

www.newscientist.com

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Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @debbiekennett.bsky.social · Aug 9

No she didn't. The mother obtained the phone records from the phone company but the police failed to convert the time from UTC to GMT. As a result, the mother's times are out by an hour. Everyone else's testimony fits if the times are corrected.

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