Lucy Letby - More Legal Questions

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🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In this episode Caroline and Liz interview senior barrister Tim Owen KC about the news that Lucy Letby will not be facing more charges. We also have an insight into the latest documentary on her case which will be on Netflix on Feb 4.

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0:00.0	The Crime Desk.
0:04.0	The Crime Desk. Arresting Podcasts.
0:05.1	Welcome to the trial UK. I'm Caroline Cheatham.
0:18.1	And I'm Liz.
0:19.0	We're back again today, Liz. It's Thursday.
0:38.1	And we're releasing just another episode this week on the ongoing, I suppose, fallout, if you like, from the news that we heard on Tuesday that Lucy Lettby would be facing no more charges in relation to harming babies at the Countess of Chester or at Liverpool Women's Hospital. And we've got a couple of things to bring you today, actually, haven't we? Because we've been chatting to a legal expert about what
0:42.3	this might mean. That is Tim Owen, a very, very senior barrister who also has the podcast
0:47.2	Double Jeopardy with the former director of Public Prosecutions, Cam McDonnell. But before we get to
0:53.1	that, we wanted just to reflect on
0:55.2	something that's just dropped, as we're recording on Thursday afternoon, Liz, think about an
1:02.0	hour or so ago. What dropped was the trailer for a Netflix documentary into Lucy Lettby. We've both watched it. What did you think?
1:14.0	Yeah, we knew, didn't we, Caroline, that this documentary was in the pipeline. It's been,
1:18.2	they've been working on it for a number of months. Yeah, it's pretty fascinating. Some of the
1:22.8	footage they've got, they've obviously had great access to Cheshire Police and their investigation because, you know, I think, you know, the most fascinating clip, should we say, on this, you know, short trailer.
1:36.7	It's only a couple of minutes long.
1:38.3	It shows police going into Lucy Lettby's house in the suburb of Blaken in July 2018 and arresting her
1:47.4	in her bed essentially. You see the body cam footage from the arresting officer. He reads her
1:54.2	rights and she's, I'll just describe it to you, she's sat in bed with like a blue duvet. You can see she's got a fleecy dressing gown on and she just looks completely bewildered.
2:07.0	Yeah, she does. She does. And we got a bit of this footage release at the end of the trial, but it was pretty limited from the arrest and also from the police interviews.
2:16.1	It looks to me like they've got an awful lot more from the police interviews as well.
2:21.8	Limited numbers of that were shown during the trial and a limited number were released afterwards.
2:27.4	And the quality on some of it wasn't amazing.
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