Parents' Guide to The Investigation of Lucy Letby

Given the use of AI to "create" characters making assertions about Lucy and the case, this feels like an exercise in hoodwinking. One "character" is a mom (her name is changed) who lost her baby. Her AI-generated presence is used throughout the film for great emotional effect. Surely, filming her in shadow would have been just as protective of her identity. The decision to instead make up an avatar for her muddies all the film's conclusions. The use of AI leads to the question of how much of what the fake mom says is real or altered to emphasize and represent the grief of parents who lost babies.

The Investigation of Lucy Letby does present newly-released police body cam footage of Lucy's arrests and her police interrogations, which seem like invasions of privacy, especially arrests at her home. Prosecutors point to the seemingly damning drop in baby deaths after Letby is fired but, post-trial, others attribute that fact to the hospital losing its status as a destination for highly critical cases, where a higher rate of mortality is built-in. Lots of filler adds to the running time, as when the AI-altered mom reports, "Waiting for the verdict was very stressful." All in all, the movie certainly demonstrates how easy it is to skew a case against what may be an innocent person.