MP uses parliamentary privilege to ask why Lucy Letby story blocked in UK

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• protist@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Under English law, British media are restricted in their reporting owing to Letby’s upcoming retrial.

  This seems to answer the question

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  • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    laws can, and sometime should be changed

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    • 13esq@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well yh, if you don’t believe in the basic democratic principle of innocent until proven guilty.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Of course Davis would ask a stupid question he’s supposed to know the answer to. Why would he be able to doing any research when he can make himself look like an idiot instead?

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  • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i think it’s more about informing the public information is being kept from them.

    Him causing asking this caused me to seek out the article

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s no conspiracy here. She’s being accused of a crime and there’s going to be a trial the prosecution have to present enough evidence to convict

      All that’s happening here is that the media are not allowed to report on a trail that’s currently ongoing which is standard practice. In the US they do it differently because there are different country, and that’s fine too.

      There was no reason for him to bring this up other than I don’t know some kind of weird political game that he thinks he’s playing it’s very unclear who this performance was for.

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  The Conservative MP David Davis has used parliamentary privilege to ask why UK readers were barred from viewing an article in a prominent US magazine about the case of the former nurse Lucy Letby.

  He told fellow MPs that the block on the story published in the New Yorker seemed “in defiance of open justice”.

  Letby was convicted last summer of murdering seven babies at the Countess of Chester hospital, where she was a neonatal nurse.

  The New Yorker published a 13,000-word piece about her case on Monday but UK readers are blocked from accessing it online.

  Under English law, British media are restricted in their reporting owing to Letby’s upcoming retrial.

  I will just simply make a point on the Lucy Letby case – that the jury’s verdict must be respected.

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