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ShortHand: Lucy Letby - What Netflix Left Out

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True Crime

4.519.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The ever-changing story of neonatal nurse Lucy Letby, and the Countess of Chester baby deaths, has been given the Netflix treatment – and We. Have. Thoughts.

For our coverage of the full story, check out our previous deep-dive just before this one in the feed. But in this week’s second-ShortHand, we talk about missed evidence, digital anonymisation, and decide whether or not it changed our minds.

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0:00.0

Hello. Hello. And welcome to yet another Lucy Letpy update from us, yours truly.

0:18.6

And that is because yesterday, on the day of recording this, the fourth of

0:22.4

every 2026, Netflix did of course drop their brand new Lucy Lettby documentary. This is not a

0:29.3

sponsored episode. We are just going to be talking about it. We assume you have watched a Netflix

0:34.6

documentary. Otherwise, this is going to be pretty strange to just listen to our take on it.

0:39.7

Maybe you listen to the update.

0:40.9

Maybe you skip straight here.

0:42.1

But let's talk about our thoughts.

0:45.2

I would say out, I think there are reasons for this that I'll go into, but out of every sort of let-be

0:50.7

thing I have consumed, I would say the Netflix documentary made me feel I emoted the most.

0:55.6

It made me feel like most like in like pit of my stomach like this is so grim.

0:59.9

Yeah.

1:00.5

But I do wonder whether I just haven't been across it as much as you.

1:04.4

I think the thing that really got me is when they go to arrest her for the second time and she's just sat there.

1:10.6

That is a

1:11.1

broken person. Like that is what I'm mentally ill, bottom of the barrel, depressed, losing

1:16.2

touch with reality person looks like. Yeah. And that, I've, I've see, I've obviously

1:21.1

seen like clips of it. I've never seen it. I've never seen the whole thing before. And that I was

1:26.0

like, yeah, that is an unwell woman.

1:29.4

It was, I also felt very much, a lot of things.

1:34.9

Watching this Netflix documentary, I think the scene in particular where she's saying goodbye

1:39.8

to her cat, that for some reason made me feel really upset.

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