Judith Moritz

Feb 24, 2025 | bbc.com | Judith Moritz |Jonathan Coffey

'Inadequate' information released by authorities after Southport attack, says terror law reviewerJudith Moritz & Jonathan CoffeyBBCThe worst disorder in the UK for more than a decade followed the attacksIn the aftermath of the Southport knife attack there was a sense of national trauma over the killings of three girls at a summer holiday dance and yoga class. Seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe, Bebe King who was six, and nine-year-old Alice Aguiar were murdered.

Feb 24, 2025 | bbc.com | Judith Moritz |Jonathan Coffey

Southport attack yoga teacher: 'If I didn't get out, everyone was going to die'Judith Moritz & Jonathan CoffeyBBCLeanne Lucas speaks to the BBC about the "absolute trauma" of the attackA yoga teacher who almost died in the Southport attack has described for the first time the desperate moments when she helped several children run to safety, despite having been stabbed five times. Leanne Lucas told BBC Panorama how she called 999 as the attacker chased after them.

Dec 4, 2024 | independent.co.uk | Judith Moritz |Jonathan Coffey

Lucy Letby is Britain’s most prolific child killer of the modern era. Surely someone fitting that bill must be a psychopath. After all, what other name would you give to someone who has murdered seven babies? During the research for our book, we spoke to a consultant forensic psychiatrist who has assessed and treated mentally disordered offenders in the North of England, including several who have been convicted of murder and manslaughter.

Dec 2, 2024 | yahoo.com | Judith Moritz |Jonny Humphries

The former chairman of the hospital where serial killer Lucy Letby murdered babies has said his decision to not invite the doctors who suspected her to an important meeting was "a big personal failure". Sir Duncan Nichol chaired the board of directors at the Countess of Chester Hospital at the time Letby killed seven infants and tried to kill seven others between June 2015 and June 2016.

Nov 30, 2024 | yahoo.com | Judith Moritz

Eleven weeks in, the Thirlwall Inquiry might just have had its most important week. It was set up to investigate how Lucy Letby was able to murder seven babies and attempt to murder seven more on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 2016. We understand the hearings take their branding from the public inquiry's chair, Lady Justice Thirlwall, so that her name - not Letby's - is given profile.