Lucy Letby

Lucy Letby and the Handover Sheets 

Substack “notes on crime”

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“I do not know if Lucy Letby is (a) innocent or (b) the victim of a miscarriage of justice, but I do believe it will not be as easy to overturn her convictions as a lot of pro-Letby Twitter/X posters and others seem to think. The hurdles are high and many. Not least, the fact of her convictions. A jury heard all the evidence and reached its verdicts. Convictions can of course be quashed, but that is not meant to be – and indeed, is not – an easy process.”

 

NEWS AND EVENTS

Latest News

  • The Sleep Of Reason – The James Bulger Case by David James Smith:
    Faber Finds edition with new preface, available September 15th, 2011.

  • Young Mandela the movie – in development.

    From The Guardian
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    In the Diary column of The Independent, April 13th, 2011

    More on my previously unsubstantiated claim that the writer-director Peter Kosminsky, creator of The Promise, is working on a drama about Nelson Mandela. I’ve now learnt that the project is a feature film, in development with Film 4, about the young Mandela. Kosminsky is currently at work on the script and, given the complaints about the anti-Jewish bias of The Promise, it is unlikely to be a standard bland portrait of the former South African president.

Latest Review

    New York Times – J. M. Ledgard

  • Nelson Mandela was circumcised as a 16-year-old boy alongside a flowing river in the Eastern Cape. The ceremony was similar to those of other Bantu peoples. An elder moved through the line making ring-like cuts, and foreskins fell away. The boys could not so much as blink; it was a rite of passage that took you beyond pain. read full review

See David James Smith…

Jon Venables: What Went Wrong
BBC 1, 10.35
Thursday, April 21st, 2011