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Whole Life
“Letby faces becoming only the second woman alive to be handed a whole-life order, meaning she would never be released from prison, when she is sentenced. The boys' parents described the nurse as a “danger to everyone” and said she should never be released.“ - Josh Halliday, “‘They could have stopped Lucy Letby’: babies’ parents criticise hospital bosses“, The Guardian, Fri 18 Aug 2023
A glistening van
in the rain
outside a courtroom.
A polished, oaken box
with brass rails.
An oil painting of
a woman weeping in the dock.
A pale morning glimpsed
through an officer’s body-camera,
as a woman is led from her home
down a street amidst blurred licence plates.
A cell door clanging shut.
A fall of untied hair.
She’s only 33.
I wonder what she’ll be at 66,
when time and lack of light
has done its work.
A glistening van
in the rain
outside a courtroom.
A polished, oaken box
with brass rails.
An oil painting of
a woman weeping in the dock.
A pale morning glimpsed
through an officer’s body-camera,
as a woman is led from her home
down a street amidst blurred licence plates.
A cell door clanging shut.
A fall of untied hair.
She’s only 33.
I wonder what she’ll be at 66,
when time and lack of light
has done its work.
Published 19th Aug 2023
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19th Aug 2023 4:11am
19th Aug 2023 3:04pm
Such a young woman to create such terrible havoc. One wonders what leads a young woman to commit such horrid crimes. yes, jail forever she deserves.
19th Aug 2023 11:32pm
I read about this earlier today, and she really struck me as maybe one of the worst serial killers I've read about in quite some time. It was like facing an unfathomable black hole, impossible to understand. There was just something about this case that might cause me to take a break from true crime stuff, but who am I kiddin', right? I will admit, however, that it is a great relief that I can empathize with some of my fellow humans through nameless tragedies like this....I usually get more worked up over animal abuse stories, and frankly, that's NOT right lol, so hopefully you understand my abstraction there of how such terrible emotion could be considered a 'relief'. GOOD to feel for the PEOPLE...at least on occasion, right? I truly cannot comprehend how these families must feel, as well as doctors and other colleagues involved.
And there's also that weird esoteric number "33" to get tinfoil nutters like me to speculate and extrapolate ;)
And there's also that weird esoteric number "33" to get tinfoil nutters like me to speculate and extrapolate ;)
20th Aug 2023 00:56am
I was a huge fan of true crime myself, mate, but stopped because it wasn’t good for my mental health. There were a couple of cases that made me step back, both American. One was Albert Fish, the cannibal child killer, and the other was Dean Corll, the Candy Man. The latter case in particular messed me up bad, partially just in small details like a kid who was forced to write a letter claiming that he’d gotten a job, but who clearly knew he was for it because he signed off with something like “whatever happens, I love you, daddy.” That one broke me for a long while.
