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I was doing a clear out at home recently and found lots of documents I had idly brought home from work with the intention of returning.

I occasionally find things I used to forward to a personal email account.

It’s very common.

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BERNADETTE MATTHEWS's avatar

So two questions for you based on your analysis, does a keepsake box containing a babies record counts as undifferentiated paper hoarding, if not is it something different?

And secondly if 247 docs.were specifically from the hospital, how curated do you think they would need to be ,to be considered a mass of undifferentiated paper?

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BERNADETTE MATTHEWS's avatar

A Grok search on the handover notes gave some really good analysis, for instance no forensic psychologist speaking of psychological research that self incriminating statements can reflect internalised blame rather than objective truths, the framing of the notes by the prosecution, carrying such emotional weight ( the claim the green note was a confession would in my view absolutely inluence a jury to a guilty verdict.

About the handover notes Grok gave: 257 handover sheets ,21 related to 13 of the children lucy was convicted of harming or killing. One sheet in pristine condition from Lucy's first day as a student nurse dated June 1,2010.one in a keepsake box with roses on it.

Reasons for hoarding can include might be useful one day/fear of losing important information/feeling sentimental attachment. Fewer than 1% references to the babies in the indictment.

Lucy's response was ' she collected paper ' ' they had just come home with her' but my question is if you just collected paper,then it would be an undifferentiated pile including receipts, old envelopes for example. Is possible of course that habits of retaining things was instilled in her from tidy minded or careful parents. But the record in the keepsake box does suggest sentimental attachment or grieving ,and so far as I have read the papers were all hand over sheets from the hospital, which ' didn't come home with her' she took them home.

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BERNADETTE MATTHEWS's avatar

Lucy Letby characterised as sly and devious is a bit undermined by the idea that knowing police were likely to search her home, she offered up with pure abandon a note offering in stand out capitals ' I AM EVIL. I DID THIS. And if that does not suggest extraordinary simplicity for a criminal mind, well then what about her stack of hand over documents for approx. the last five years. For a criminal, she was extraordinarily forthcoming. Evidence we see what we want to see is demonstrated in the complete disregard for the context of that note, in which she also says I have done nothing wrong, and responds to allegations of criminality with disbelieving capitalisation ,to stress the enormity of the allegations against her.

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