Irish Examiner view: Blocking the Internet hinders open justice

If lawyers want to mitigate the corrosive effect of social media, society is not only on the road to becoming ungovernable, but unreportable as well

Readers in Britain have been banned from internet access to a forensic piece of research challenging the Lucy Letby verdict, published in the 'New Yorker' magazine. Picture: Yui Mok/PA

The case of Lucy Letby, the neo-natal nurse convicted of murdering seven newborns and attempting to kill six more at the Countess of Chester Hospital, is one of the most problematic in British legal history. 

The reporting of the case has been swathed in a multitude of court-imposed restrictions. A statutory public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the crimes is set to start in September at Liverpool Town Hall.