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 At this point, now she is in prison, there are two available narratives: Lucy Letby is either a person of calculated evil, or the victim of a breathtaking miscarriage of justice.
-By percentage of the population, serial murderers are vanishingly rare in Britain. So are miscarriages of justice. These extremes leave untouched between them a vast range of ambivalent and much more plausible explanations: We like our narratives to tell us things about the world, and a perspective that says, “well, it’s complicated” doesn’t tell us much about the world. It isn’t useful. So few of us occupy that space.
+By percentage of the population, serial murderers are vanishingly rare in Britain. So are miscarriages of justice. These extremes leave untouched between them a vast range of ambivalent and more plausible alternatives which suffer the disadvantage of not offering a good explanation: We like our narratives to tell us things about the world, and a perspective that says, “well, it’s complicated” doesn’t tell us much about the world. It isn’t useful. So few of us occupy that space.
 JC will advance the position that we ''should''. While it may offer little intellectual satisfaction, it may be the best we can reasonably expect.