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"I would never, ever, want to use my flag to bully or intimidate anyone" - Big John. Bosh.

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At Lucy Letby's trial, the prosecution repeatedly called her a liar and a gaslighter – on one occasion, for speculating that a baby had died of sepsis. You know who agreed with Letby? Dr Stephen Brearey, one of her accusers. You know who didn't get to hear about this? The jury. In June 2015, over the span of two weeks, three babies died on the neonatal unit where Letby worked. It was a great shock to everyone, with nurses and doctors alike exchanging thoughts on how this could have happened. In text messages shown in court, Letby and a fellow nurse discussed the babies' possible causes of death. Baby D, Letby speculated, had died of sepsis. This, according to the prosecutor, was a prime example of Letby "gaslighting" her colleagues. "Well, we know [Baby D] wasn't septic," prosecutor Nick Johnson said. This was nonsense. Johnson did not "know" that Baby D "wasn't septic." The baby's own post-mortem, which found that she'd died of "pneumonia with acute lung injury" (the doctors had no idea she had pneumonia!) took pains to explain why sepsis couldn't be ruled out. And Letby's opinion – that Baby D died of sepsis – was shared by none other than the head of the neonatal unit, Dr Stephen Brearey. Dr Brearey was the man ultimately responsible for the medical care of these babies. Dr Brearey was the man who first accused Letby of murder. (His suspicions, he would later tell reporters, began when he noticed that Letby was on duty for all three babies' deaths – never mind that he turned out to be wrong about her being the only nurse on duty for all three deaths.) Dr Brearey was the man found guilty – alongside his colleague, Dr Ravi Jayaram – of bullying and harassing Letby. (The jury likewise never got to hear about this.) And Dr Brearey was the man who, on the day Baby D died, emailed Dr Jayaram to say, "it appears that neonatal GBS sepsis following prolonged rupture of membranes is the most likely cause for death" for Baby D. "She was symptomatic from 12 min of age," he wrote, in a follow up email to the rest of the medical team, referring to how Baby D had gone pale and floppy in her father's arms. Did prosecutor Nick Johnson call Dr Brearey a gaslighter? Of course not. The jury never saw these emails. They only emerged a year after the trial, as part of the public inquiry into the Letby case. By then, Letby had already been convicted of murdering Baby D.