This comment was originally made on Facebook by Michele .

“I worked on that unit for over 25 years . The manager was downgraded from a band 8a to a band 7. She was humiliated & demoralised. When she left, the job was not externally advertised but Eirean Powell who was a band 6 was appointed & given a band 7.

The 2 band 7 sisters: one was given early retirement & the other was side-lined into another department. A band 6 was told there was no job for her (having trained for 2 years) to be an advanced neonatal nurse practitioner so she left. Another band 6 left as there was no career structure.

I was the ANNP & I was served compulsory redundancy. You cannot run a neonatal unit with no experienced senior staff. The consultants never came near unless they had a ward round or were called to see a sick baby. The junior doctors were not career paediatricians but GP trainees . The babies who died were not well babies as portrayed. Some of them had infections, they were premature & multiple births which makes them vulnerable.

The unit was not fit for purpose, the drains were constantly blocking, there was sewage….. all of which increased the risk of infection. One time we had an outbreak of black flies & an exterminator had to be called. Lucy was one of only 3 full time staff & she was working extra shifts (one week she worked 60 hours) so statistically she would (almost always) be on duty when babies became ill.

She is compared to Harold Shipman who was a Pethidine addict who was getting his patients to change their wills in favour of him, all his victims died of diamorphine overdoses. Beverly Allit had a serious personality disorder, she was not popular, an odd person, her victims all died of insulin poisoning & she was caught with insulin.

Lucy doesn’t fit any of these profiles, she was popular, hard working. A serial killer does not change their MOD. So Lucy is using air embolism, insulin, dislodging ET tubes?

None of it makes sense . I truly believe she is innocent”