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Was White Female Privilege, The reason Why Lucy Letby Got Away With Murdering Babies For The Longest Time?
Race and the criminal justice system.
Lucy Letby.
Ms. Letby was found guilty a few days ago of having murdered seven and the attempted murder of six babies between 2015 and 2016.
As far as child murderers go in the United Kingdom, Lucy Lethby ranks alongside Myra Hindley as one of the most persistent ever.
But these crimes should never have happened.
Dr. Ravi Jayaram, the consultant pediatrician, who had long suspected Lucy Letby of killing premature babies was disciplined by the senior managers at the hospital and made to read out a letter of apology to the serial killer.
In any sane world, the word of a highly reputable doctor would be taken very seriously and acted upon, but this was no sane world.
This was a world in which the word of a white nurse was taken far more seriously than a doctor who was of a different skin colour.