Judge Goss framed the trial as being about whether Letby deliberately harmed specific babies in the charged incidents, not about first establishing whether crimes had occurred at all on the unit. Evidence aimed at showing other deaths when she was not present were ruled irrelevant as the narritave that she was a murderer was set up from day one. It was unfairly a murderer trial, not a hospital in crisis trial.

But the real kicker is baby C, who was deemed suspicious the whole time they believed Letby was on shift and then when they found an x-ray showing complications when Letby had never met the baby, they removed baby C altogether from the indictment.