Bamber And Letby Are Innocent? No, They’re Not!
Two of the most loathsome individuals in Britain bedeck Sunday’s newspapers: family annihilator Jeremy Bamber and angel of death Lucy Letby. True crime buffs will recognise those terms; anyone who follows the news will know instantly what they mean.
The photo below is Letby’s mugshot. Grey eyes and kinda blonde. Tasteful. What red-blooded male wouldn’t want to take a woman like that to bed? Rather that than have her babysit his kids. Seriously, this pantomime has gone on long enough. Critics parrot the same old nonsense – there was only circumstantial evidence against her, other babies died too, she didn’t have a fair trial. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
Need they or anyone be reminded that Lucy Letby was defended by a top flight KC? Ben Myers, who was called to the Bar in 1994, went as far as any lawyer can in representing a client, zealously defending her to the full extent of the law, as our American cousins say.
Her lengthy trial was conducted by Mr Justice Goss with consummate fairness, and the jury deliberated for a staggering 110 hours 26 minutes over 22 days in what appears to have been the longest jury deliberation in one of the longest trials in British criminal history.
While no one actually saw Letby murder any of her victims, the evidence against her was not simply compelling but overwhelming. Anyone who takes the trouble to examine this evidence rather than play stupid games with statistics will surely be made aware of that. Start by reading the transcript of her failed appeal.
Someone with even less appeal than Lucy Letby is Jeremy Bamber, whose crime is now nearly forty years old. He was discussed here last August. What has happened since then, would you believe more new evidence has been uncovered? Students of this case have heard it all before. Again, as with Letby, before going any further the reader should at least peruse the transcript of his failed appeal (linked from the previous article). That was in 2002 and runs to 522 paragraphs. So what is this new evidence?
There were photographs that were said not to have been disclosed to the defence. It has to be said that the police refused to disclose some other documents which the defence claim were related to this case. We can only speculate as to what they were but they probably relate to sources and methods of something totally unconnected. Bamber has already been to the Court Of Appeal twice, and the Criminal Cases Review Commission has given him more than enough attention. Whether or not the police did not disclose all the evidence they should have, he has a mountain to climb and then some. Even if one ignores the testimony of his girlfriend Julie Mugford, there remains the fact that there were only two possible perpetrators of the White House Farm Massacre. The second was a slip of a girl we are expected to believe fought with and somehow overpowered a powerfully built, physically fit farmer in the kitchen having already shot both her young sons and her mother then went back upstairs and committed suicide.
This appears to have been what the man initially in charge of the investigation believed. Some police officers also believe in psychics, but that doesn’t mean you have to.