LL Part 11: An example of Fair, Honest and Balanced Reporting
Or not....
Following on from my earlier post regarding the Lucy Letby Case here.
Someone just pointed me to this article in the Daily Mail today. The headline is as sensational as it is utterly stupid. It exposes to just what degree the mainstream media want to distract you from the Net Zero, ULEZ, Covid and other issues of the day, while creating fantastical stories to support their “cunning murderess” and “Britain’s Worst Babykiller” narrative.
In the article, Rory Tingle, self-professed journalist extrordinaire, describes detectives on the case saying that there were colour-coded asterisks and other ephemera that marked or identified, for Lucy at least, events of significant interest.
Rory, however, takes it one step further by claiming that the letters he sees as “LO” in Lucy’s diary are actually a secret code known only to Lucy that identify when she murdered or harmed different babies.
He first gives us this image annotated by police…
In which the police annotations (circled in red) identify days where different babies were harmed.
Then, he gives us this image…
And further describes that the LO code appeared on other pages where she tried to murder twin neonates Babies L and M.
The Nurses, Midwives and Doctors reading this substack will already have noticed what I immediately saw.
The letters are not ‘LO’ as Rory wants the great unwashed to believe, and most certainly are not some secret baby murder trophy code.
They are actually ‘LD’ - the shift designation from her roster that describes her as working a Long Day. An LD shift is a 12 hour shift wherein the nurse or midwife arrives on the unit around 7:00am to change and prepare for handover, and comes off shift after handing over to the night staff at around 7:30pm in the evening.
While I could go on for days showing you the sensationalist claims some in the mainstream media are now making about Lucy, this one example more than any other shows just how willing they are to hallucinate evil from any insignificant or errant thing Lucy may have done.
The next post in our series can be found here.
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For those who still doubt that LD is a common nursing and midwifery abbreviation I offer you this slide deck1 from an NHS National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) 2017 research report by Dall’Ora et al.
On slide 6 you will find they use the standard abbreviations for nurses’ shifts:
E = Early
L = Late
N = Night
LD = Long Day
With thanks to the anonymous tip sent to Prof Fenton that linked us to this document.
I wouldn't mind but it is clearly a D... the entire case is a bag of contradictions.
Motive- she wanted a doctors attention... he wasn't even employed at the hospital when the first incidents happened.
OK she loved the thrill, standard hero complex... insulin occurred when she was off the ward, no attention to be gained.
Trophies- aside from she was missing near a quarter.
Incidents stopped while she was on holiday- what about the months that elapsed with no charged Incidents.
Many scoffed at people's suggestions that doctors would lay blame on a nurse, yet readily accept that the highest levels of management ignored doctors to favour a nurse. Backwards
The "copious writer of notes" comment reminds me of the psychologist in the 60s (if my memory serves me correctly) who got himself admitted to a psychiatric unit to carry out research. Nursing staff noted that he "displayed writing behaviour."