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Guardian TV critic, author. Bookworm; a Memoir of Childhood Reading, is out in paperback now. New book (and first novel) Are We Having Fun Yet? out Oct 14
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Love you to death review – is this all they asked the woman who faked her son's illnesses?

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By Lucy Mangan Verified
| MSN UK Verified
There's an increasingly common pattern emerging whereby documentary makers take a story that was run through the Outrage-A-Tron by the tabloids to produce headlines that warped public understanding (“Britain's Worst/Most Evil/Most Deadly” and so on), then proceed to put back some of the lost nuance and present the more complicated original picture. Lucy Letby (“Britain's Worst Child Killer”) has been the subject of at least two such films redressing the lost balance.
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Love You to Death review – is this all they asked the woman who faked her son’s illnesses?

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By Lucy Mangan Verified
| Inkl
‘Incomprehensible purposes’ … Lisa and her son Matthew. Photograph: Paul Levie/TNA There’s an increasingly common pattern emerging whereby documentary makers take a story that was run through the Outrage-A-Tron by the tabloids to produce headlines that warped public understanding (“Britain’s Worst/Most Evil/Most Deadly” and so on), then proceed to put back some of the lost nuance and present the more complicated original picture.
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Love You to Death review – is this all they asked the woman who faked her son’s illnesses?

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By Lucy Mangan Verified
| AOL UK Verified
There’s an increasingly common pattern emerging whereby documentary makers take a story that was run through the Outrage-A-Tron by the tabloids to produce headlines that warped public understanding (“Britain’s Worst/Most Evil/Most Deadly” and so on), then proceed to put back some of the lost nuance and present the more complicated original picture. Lucy Letby (“Britain’s Worst Child Killer”) has been the subject of at least two such films redressing the lost balance.
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