Robin Jarossi

Lucy Letby case expert witness was under fitness-to-practise investigation during trial Exclusive: Jury was never told about inquiry into key prosecution witness Peter Hindmarsh, which looked into allegations including of harm to patients

More serious questions being raised about the Letby trial and conviction. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The silencer and the White House Farm murders: is this the evidence that could free Jeremy Bamber? He has been in prison for 41 years for killing five members of his family – despite no DNA linking him to the crime. New analysis of the crime scene photographs for the Guardian suggests the prosecuti...

Will we ever find out if Bamber's conviction was one of Britain's greatest miscarriages of justice? bit.ly/4rHCqsn

Robin Jarossi Robin is a freelance journalist, author and on-air contributor to true-crime documentaries on the BBC and CBS Reality, including Murder by the Sea .

I've set up a new author site at jarossi.com, which has details of my next book, Force of Darkness: Confronting Blackout Killer Gordon Cummins… Drop by if you've got time

Wandsworth Prison’s disturbing history Researching my forthcoming book took me into Britain’s chilling past of capital punishment

Researching my next book, due out in August, took me to…
open.substack.com/pub/robinjar...

Lucy Letby documentary reveals first admission of ‘tiny’ doubt from doctors who accused her Netflix film revisits evidence that led to Letby’s conviction and hears from expert who says his research was misused

Looks like this is going to run and run… www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Lucy Letby documentary reveals first admission of ‘tiny’ doubt from doctors who accused her

What a coincidence – I just walked along there on the New River Walk…

On budget day, here's a timely reminder of the vital public services we've lost over the past 15 years through government cuts.

What has happened to the Observer’s football coverage? Only one men’s and women’s game report and the table stats are out of date. Why bother?

Man, 92, convicted of raping and murdering Bristol woman in 1967 Ryland Headley found guilty of killing Louisa Dunne after DNA breakthrough in cold case review

Incredible that this guy had his sentence for two rapes reduced on appeal on the basis that he 'sexually frustrated' by his 'demanding' wife… www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tory treasurer’s offshore water company bagged £1.2m contract with the taxman | Good Law Project Lucrative deals between the government and a water company owned by Tory treasurer and mega-donor Graham Edwards are under the spotlight.

Just a reminder that this is one of the companies bidding to take over Thames Water as it faces collapse.

How on earth is a firm like Castle Water, owned by Tory mega donor via an opaque offshore network, a better solution than nationalisation? 🤷‍♀️

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Announcing the shortlist for the ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction!

The convictions of Lucy Letby: should they be overturned? When the former nurse was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others, a 1980s research paper was key to the prosecution’s case. But the author of the paper himself be...

Not a great week for UK justice – first Peter Sullivan found innocent after 38 years in jail, now this... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Was disillusion with the Tories and Labour as deep back then as it is now, though?

We Can Make an Impact. Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

I've signed the ALCS petition to protect authors' copyright from being stolen by tech bros… chng.it/sDSgVQdWLK

Privatisation has been an epic scam on the British public…

Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (New Trailer 2016) - In cinemas 29 July | BFI release YouTube video by BFI

One of Kubrick's less lauded films, but Barry Lyndon – 50 years old! – makes glorious and emotional viewing… youtu.be/XjPSGuJskxM

Labour Party keeps emailing asking me for donations, forgetting I'm one of the approx 170k members who left – in my case because Starmer reneged on so many promises to grab the leadership. Donations? No chance…

Just booked it

Sixty years on – will the identity of London's Hammersmith serial killer remain a secret forever? The body of Bridie O'Hara was found in 1965, but Scotland Yard's investigation never got close to trapping the man who killed her and five other women

Revisiting London's unsolved serial-killer case… bit.ly/3Dfgd0V

Frozen park in Stoke Newington, London, this morning. Looking forward to the chill ending this week, if the forecasters know what they're talking about…

Sambre – a shocking case This French TV drama shows how police apathy allowed a serial predator to terrorise women living along the Sambre river for decades

Sambre, on BBC iPlayer, is one of the most powerful true-crime dramas I've seen for a long time… open.substack.com/pub/robinjar...

British novelists criticise government over AI ‘theft’ Richard Osman and Kate Mosse say plan to mine artistic works for data would destroy creative fields

'A government spokesperson said: “Current uncertainty about how copyright law applies to AI is holding back the creative industries and AI sector from realising their full potential."'
I notice the government are not sugesting the power companies give the AI sector their electricity for free.

Ex-Israeli spy involved in Observer takeover A FORMER Israeli spy is a senior executive in one of the companies funding the takeover of the Observer.

Are we now seeing the real reason for the Observer takeover? Ex-Israeli spy involved in Observer takeover open.substack.com/pub/paddyfre...

Sambre - Anatomy of a Crime One road, countless victims and a predator unpunished for 30 years. The searing, powerful story of France's most notorious serial rapist - and a justice system blind to his crimes.

Watched Sambre – Anatomy of a Crime bbc.in/40y7PCw Powerful, heartbreaking French drama about how official indifference allowed serial rapist to get away with his crimes for 30 years

FA warned to avoid protest at meeting unless boycotting Saudi Arabia World Cup The Football Association board has been warned to avoid protesting at the meeting that will confirm Saudi Arabia as host of the 2034 men’s World Cup

The English FA and the whole international football community should play a blinder and condemn this bid being waved through… www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Journalists strike over proposed sale of Observer to Tortoise Media Forty-eight-hour strike, first at Guardian in more than 50 years, to take place on Wednesday and Thursday

I'm on strike today and tomorrow with hundreds of my Guardian colleagues over the proposed sale of the Observer. Much of the brilliant journalism you enjoy for free on the Guardian website over the weekend is Observer journalism... cont'd www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

Journalists strike over proposed sale of Observer to Tortoise Media Forty-eight-hour strike, first at Guardian in more than 50 years, to take place on Wednesday and Thursday

I'll be cancelling my Observer subscription the moment it is flogged… www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky.

I've found using the Chrome extension Sky Follower Bridge is a quick way to find your former Twitter followers here and follow them again… bit.ly/3UZL9rC

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,815,773!

@sarahbaxhorton.bsky.social nice to see you here, Sarah