Me, Lucy Letby and the New Yorker

Why you can’t buy a copy of the famous magazine in Britain

Lucy Letby is a British nurse serving a life sentence for murdering babies who were in her care. As might be imagined, this was something of a cause célèbre in Britain at the time but is now receiving wider attention worldwide. Not so much the crimes as the suspicion there were no crimes.

Strange to say, none of these developments have affected Britain. English law dictates that when things are sub judice, before the courts, nothing can be said in…