One of Britain’s most notorious child killers died Saturday, days after he was attacked by a fellow inmate in the workshop of a maximum-security prison.
To be honest Ian Watkins and Jimmy Saville were probably more notorious. Although I am pretty sure neither were murderers though, my desire to research it could not be lower.
They had much higher profiles than Ian Huntley before being revealed as nonces.
Lucy Letby. You’re right, she’s probably number one. Also probably innocent. Many expert came out to say the evidence used to convict her was bullshit.
Literally the first time i heard of the case the first thought i had was about how exactly the same kind of case had been brought against nurses before and every time they’ve turned out to be innocent and the evidence is just people not understanding statistics
Oh I didn’t realize that. Do you have any links to articles or anything?
I first heard about it on a true crime podcast that I really like (Casual Criminalist, which is incidentally hosted by a British guy) but I didn’t realize that the evidence was being questioned.
“One of UK’s most notorious child killers” is such a crazy title. How many notorious child killers are there in UK? Which one is THE most notorious?
at least unlike america they’re not the government
I wouldn’t be so sure about that.
To be honest Ian Watkins and Jimmy Saville were probably more notorious. Although I am pretty sure neither were murderers though, my desire to research it could not be lower.
They had much higher profiles than Ian Huntley before being revealed as nonces.
That nurse that killed a bunch of newborns would probably be it
Lucy Letby. You’re right, she’s probably number one. Also probably innocent. Many expert came out to say the evidence used to convict her was bullshit.
Literally the first time i heard of the case the first thought i had was about how exactly the same kind of case had been brought against nurses before and every time they’ve turned out to be innocent and the evidence is just people not understanding statistics
Oh I didn’t realize that. Do you have any links to articles or anything?
I first heard about it on a true crime podcast that I really like (Casual Criminalist, which is incidentally hosted by a British guy) but I didn’t realize that the evidence was being questioned.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt39389929/
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/27/lucy-letby-inquiry-should-be-postponed-changed-experts
I think that’s only because of how recent that was. It might be different in ten years’ time.
If that’s a serious question: probably Myra Hindley and Ian Brady aka the Moors Murderers.