Why some experts are doubting Lucy Letby’s conviction
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Conspiracy theories have swirled around the former nurse found guilty of murdering seven babies. But now some experts have also raised concerns about the safety of her conviction. We talk to one of them.
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- Ali Mitib, News Reporter, The Times.
- William Thompson, Professor Emeritus of Criminology, Law and Society, UC Irvine.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:06.8 | saying things like let's circle back on this or can you drill down on that? Or... or... |
| 0:13.0 | Deep dive. |
| 0:15.0 | You know what you are, don't you? |
| 0:17.0 | You're entitled. |
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| 0:30.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:36.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. |
| 0:39.5 | It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:43.8 | Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:46.3 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon |
| 0:50.4 | and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:56.1 | 2023. VP.com slash and not all. From the Times and Sunday Times, I'm Manveen Rana. |
| 1:07.0 | From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm Manveen Rana. |
| 1:14.0 | I had always expected the jury to take some time to come to their decisions in the trial of |
| 1:25.8 | UC leby. It was quite a suspenseful moment when the jury handed down |
| 1:31.7 | their first verdicts. Up to that point the jury had been out for quite a few weeks, |
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