Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳
@DebbieKennett
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DNA, genetic genealogy, family history, forensics. Honorary Research Fellow at UCL. All views my own.
England
Joined March 2009
Our big review paper on investigative genetic genealogy for FSI Genetics is now out. It was a pleasure to collaborate with Daniel Kling, @sifta and Andreas Tillmar on this. https://t.co/tT52mxx5kZ
#geneticgenealogy #forensics #DNA
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New transcripts available: 🚨The complete Dr Marnerides testimony 🚨Dr Bohin on Baby Q 🚨The complete police interviews 🚨House search evidence 🚨Texts/Messaging after Baby Q These replace some incomplete versions from audio/screengrabs. #LucyLetby
https://t.co/yVphgKcvxS
lucyletbyinnocence.com
Lucy Letby Trial - transcripts
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Every @NHSEngland maternity review has said the same things, writes @RoyLilley : Short staffing. Poor teamwork; midwives, obstetricians and neonatologists. Weak leadership. A culture where people are afraid to escalate. Families dismissed or patronised. Training neglected.
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Looking forward to speaking at this event this afternoon. #petconf25
🕒 9 Days to Go! Session 5: Donor Conception and Genomics (sponsored by #ESHRE): ✓Genetic limits: S. Viville ✓Mitochondrial therapies: D. Wells ✓Bioethics: M. Parker ✓DNA testing & anonymity: D. Kennett 🗓️10 Dec | London 🔗 https://t.co/oAXUvSlvkw
#PETconf25 #WeAreOnBluesky
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BBC News - Sperm from donor with cancer-causing gene was used to conceive almost 200 children - BBC News https://t.co/1JhEZ55ziN
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Some children have already died and only a minority who inherit the mutation will escape cancer in their lifetimes.
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Gavin St Pier and his wife were released without charge. “The Free Speech Union will be helping Mr St Pier sue for wrongful arrest.”
NEW by @sarahknapton: "Politician arrested over criticism of Letby 'expert'" "Gavin St Pier, of the States of Guernsey parliament, named paediatrician Dr Sandie Bohin in speech about safeguarding issues in healthcare" https://t.co/5wNANej174
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"The often heard statement 'whenever something went wrong, the nurse was always there,' has no basis in fact." New paper by statistician John O'Quigley, on the misuse of shift charts in 'angel of death' investigations, with focus on the Lucy Letby case:
journals.sagepub.com
When there are no witnesses, no substantive material evidence, no plausible motive, and, moreover, nothing beyond speculation to indicate that a crime has even ...
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https://t.co/pGXavlkSK3 Innocence work rarely gets the attention it deserves. Join us as we explore the landscape of Innocence Projects in the UK and shine a light on Cardiff Innocence Project with Dr. Dennis Eady. A thought-provoking conversation you won’t want to miss.
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Revelations from a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers. https://t.co/6YgezWzwax via @ConversationUK
theconversation.com
We created the database in order to challenge assumptions about the lack of professionalism of everyday soldiers.
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Tell your boss that I gave you the rest of the week off so you can explore this amazing interactive map showing the road network of the Roman Empire. This is so much fun to explore you can compare the Ancient and Modern road network for example. Great stuff. Your boss will
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In 2000, the S&P 500 had an elevated trailing P/E of 26, well above its long-term avg. of 14. For the next 11 years, the S&P 500 delivered zero returns! The current S&P 500 trailing P/E is 30 – even higher than 2000. History rhymes. For standardized performance visit our website.
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A new paper from the Othram team: "Investigative and policy impacts of forensic genetic genealogy in the identification of human remains". https://t.co/hwvXwr9VIx
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You can watch the moving speech from Lucy Letby's childhood friend Dawn in its entirety on the @nineteen_nurses YouTube channel. https://t.co/EexkH8ifxb
"Lucy Letby is being used as a 'scapegoat' to cover for the failings of senior doctors in the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital, her childhood friend has claimed." https://t.co/TRlBbKrq2j
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An article in the New York Times on how Ancestry are now enforcing their terms and conditions and the effect it is having on cold case investigations.
nytimes.com
The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the company’s vast trove of records.
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FreeUK Genealogy are fundraising for the new FreeProbate search service. All donations will be doubled until 9th December as part of the BigGive campaign.
donate.biggive.org
Free UK Genealogy provides free online access to over 500 million family history records, so anyone can build their own …
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Tuam excavation uncovers additional infant graves and confirms long-hidden burial ground 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
irishexaminer.com
Forensic specialists have uncovered further infant remains and confirmed the existence of a previously undocumented burial ground at the former institution site
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In 2017, Cheshire Police IGNORED National Crime Agency advice to assemble a broad panel of experts. Instead, they appeared to take the word of one retired paediatrician who said he could do the lot single-handedly. Gobsmacking new information on the Lucy Letby case 🧵(1/15)
"It was a lightbulb moment". Steve Watts, the detective who was UK's ex-lead for the Investigation of Deaths in Health Care Settings, describes the moment he realised where the police investigation into Lucy Letby went off the rails. (47m 38s) 🧵(1/13) https://t.co/cwhyNzikKo
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Terrific @robilypj op-ed: "My case offers a glimpse of a terrifying, no-jury future" "The errors in my case were not the fault of 12 ordinary people who followed the legal directions they were bound to. No, the wrong turn was down to the judge alone." https://t.co/OR6io5FRWV
thetimes.com
The bank trader was jailed for five years for Libor rigging by a judge who misdirected the jury. It took six appeals and ten years to get his conviction quashed
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Another gobsmacking development on Guernsey related to Lucy Letby expert witness Sandie Bohin. Gavin St Pier: 'My wife and I are the subjects of an investigation following a complaint alleging harassment. This is a shocking allegation which we completely refute,' he said. (1/5)
BREAKING: Treasury lead Gavin St Pier and his wife Jane were arrested yesterday as part of a police investigation into allegations of harassment. https://t.co/HVzG7iEqNM
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Dive into Ireland's oldest medieval history! 📜 Our 14th-century Exchequer Memoranda Rolls are now conserved & digitised. View high-res images & transcriptions online: https://t.co/XurwFiNVN6
#EYAMedieval | #EYAMeánaoiseach
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President Trump says it perfectly. A patchwork of 50 different state systems creates a maze of conflicting regulations, resulting in chaos. Follow me to join the conversation on leading the AI revolution.
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Know someone aged 100 or over? We need their stories for the 1926 Census celebration! Help us share these amazing histories across Ireland and globally. Find out more: https://t.co/x1wm3Mi8zK
#TheStoryofUs
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