{"id":164,"date":"2026-09-24T11:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucyletby.org\/?p=164"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:54:11","slug":"speculations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucyletby.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/speculations\/","title":{"rendered":"Speculations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems there&#8217;s enough evidence to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Lucy was being forced to work in the outside nurseries against her will for a period in June 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have Dr Saladi saying Dr Brearey told him about it (though not the date), testimonies about it from Nurse Calderbank-Ward and Nurse W and texts from Nurse Mel Taylor showing she was involved in it by manipulating Nurses Yvonne Taylor and Yvonne Griffiths in Eirian&#8217;s absence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also have neonatal unit manager Eirian Powell&#8217;s garbled recollection of it, which suggests she was lied to by Nurse W regarding events during her absence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">None of it proves Lucy innocent or guilty, but it is extremely interesting that it seems they were, covertly, deliberately setting Lucy up, either to catch a serial harmer or to invent one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What evidence did they have to suspect she was harming babies at that point?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You could argue that Mel had actually seen her attack Baby A and wanted to catch her out with the help of Calderbank-Ward (the next night) and of Nurse W (on the Saturday night). It doesn&#8217;t sound convincing, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nurse W, in fact, placed what she says she thought to be the sickest baby in the unit that night in the outside nursery, Room 3 &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plan could be to blame Eirian. They maintain it was an instruction from her, given to help Lucy&#8217;s mental wellbeing. But she wasn&#8217;t there. Nor was Lucy, most of that week, though somebody thought Lucy was around before Baby C&#8217;s air bubble was X-rayed at 12.36 pm on 12th June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It does make one wonder whether the fuzzy idea of Lucy being &#8220;moved to days&#8221; some time in early April was the same &#8211; something Nurses Yvonne Taylor and Yvonne Griffiths did under guidance from someone else, and Eirian, unsuspecting, just went along with it?&#8230; till she couldn&#8217;t cope without Lucy on nights, obviously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thirlwall.public-inquiry.uk\/final-report-chapter\/volume-i\/part-one\/chapter-3\/\">https:\/\/thirlwall.public-inquiry.uk\/final-report-chapter\/volume-i\/part-one\/chapter-3\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems there&#8217;s enough evidence to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Lucy was being forced to work in the outside nurseries against her will for a period in June 2015. We have Dr Saladi saying Dr Brearey told him about it (though not the date), testimonies about it from Nurse Calderbank-Ward and Nurse W and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lucyletby.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/speculations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speculations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"Lucy Letby","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,10],"tags":[3,13,15,4],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lucy-letby","category-miscarriage-of-justice","category-nhs","tag-lucy-letby","tag-miscarriage-of-justice","tag-nhs-maternity-care","tag-thirlwall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucyletby.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucyletby.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucyletby.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyletby.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyletby.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lucyletby.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/lucyletby.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyletby.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucyletby.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyletby.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyletby.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}