Invited to a preview screening of the new documentary Conviction: The Case of Lucy Letby, Obiter expected to watch in an environment of sombre silence. In fact, it was not long before screen 1 of the Curzon Soho cinema heard the first shout of ‘nonsense’.
Hecklers made themselves heard throughout the 60-minute film, which follows individuals connected to the case – including Letby’s new barrister, Mark McDonald, and Dr Dewi Evans, the prosecution’s expert witness at the trial – during an eight-month period before Letby’s application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
To insult someone on the screen or question them out loud when they cannot hear you is perverse – or possibly performative. Yet it happened so often that some viewers loudly entreated the hecklers to be quiet. It made no difference.
The documentary will be screened on Channel 4 on Monday 29 September.
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