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Welcome to True Crime Brewery. I'm Jill.

And I'm Dick.

When British nurse Lucy Letby went on trial in 2023, the case against her seemed very overwhelming.

She was charged with 17 murders and attempted murders in the neonatal unit where she worked at Countess of Chester Hospital.

So the case centered on an abnormally high number of deaths between June 2015 and June of 2016,

and although no one ever saw Lucy harming a baby and the coroner did not find foul play in any of

their deaths, thousands of pieces of evidence were gathered to convict her. In August of

2023, she was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole.

Join us at the quiet end for Lucy Lettby, the common denominator, and this will be

part one. We'll be doing a part two where we covered the trial and what's happened since then.

But at her sentencing, the judge

did say that Lucy had committed a cruel, calculated, and cynical campaign of child murder

involving the smallest and most vulnerable of children. So a public inquiry was ordered to discern

how Lucy Letby was able to commit her crimes and how the hospital failed

to protect babies. But Lucy maintains that she is innocent, and there are lots of questions about

the statistical evidence used to convict her and the working conditions on that unit. So is Lucy Lett be

the cruel calculated killer that the jury would find her to be?

Or could she just be a victim of a false conviction? It's very interesting and a lot to talk about,

and this case was brought to our attention by Carrie from Queensland, Australia. So what do we have for a beer today?

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