Thank you. Pretty much sums up my own views. (Post- Zionist Jew, synagogue member, active in Palestinian causes, support a one state solution but have to accept that the vast majority of my Jewish friends still hope for another way forward. Cancelled Green Party membership yesterday.)

2. The overall point of my article isn't that I am certain of Letby's innocence but about the danger of taking a position of certainty and then reading everything through that lens only.

I'll just make two points, then stop there: 1. Letby is careful to say "From the blood result, yes." She was clearly unqualified (as most of us are) to interpret them herself, so is here conceding that she has to go by the expert witness's interpretation. This has since been challenged....1/2

This is not a transcript but a summary by a court reporter and your paraphrase of it is inaccurate.

No-one reading my article attentively could (a) believe I presented myself as an authority figure (b) describe my position as "stanning" for Letby. You appear to have reached absolute certainty yourself, to which you are entitled. The theme of my article was that certainty can also be misguided.

I don't read the transcripts in that way. The prosecution barrister put many propositions to her (as they always do), including inviting her to incriminate others. At times she was inevitably compelled to reply, in effect, "well if it was deliberate, it still wasn't me.