A new Netflix film probes the controversial case of UK nurse Lucy Letby, jailed for killing seven babies, featuring unseen footage and expert doubts.
LONDON: A new Netflix documentary is re-examining the shocking case of Lucy Letby, the former UK nurse convicted of murdering seven babies.
The film, “The Investigation Of Lucy Letby”, includes previously unseen police bodycam footage of her arrest.
Letby’s parents have condemned the documentary as “a complete invasion of privacy”.
They stated they had no idea footage from inside their family home was being used.
The 90-minute film presents perspectives from both sides of the contentious case.
It highlights Letby’s “no comment” police interviews and her diary entries marked with asterisks on dates babies died.
Conversely, it features testimony from experts who question the safety of her convictions.
Canadian physician Shoo Lee challenged the expert evidence presented at her trial.
A former colleague, paediatrician John Gibbs, expressed a “tiny, tiny, tiny” doubt about her guilt.
“I live with two guilts,” Gibbs says in the film.
“Guilt that we let the babies down, and tiny, tiny, tiny guilt: did we get the wrong person?”
Letby was convicted in 2023 and 2024 for murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven more.
She was accused of injecting them with air, overfeeding them milk and poisoning them with insulin.
The former nurse has always maintained her innocence and was twice denied permission to appeal.
An international panel of medical experts has since argued her conviction was a miscarriage of justice.
The Criminal Cases Review Commission is currently considering this new evidence.
Inquests into the deaths of six of the babies have been adjourned until May.
A public inquiry into the wider case is due to be published later this year.
Health Minister Wes Streeting said her fate should be decided by the courts, not campaigners.
He stressed this should only change if a judicial process finds the court “has got it wrong”.
