Selection criteria — timeline events
An event qualifies for the timeline if at least one is true:
- It is recorded in the Thirlwall Inquiry evidence or transcripts.
- It is in a court judgment or sentencing remarks.
- It is reported, with attribution, by multiple mainstream outlets.
- It is a published expert report or a named expert’s on-the-record public statement.
Selection criteria — evidence issues
Each issue pairs the prosecution’s position at trial with the post-conviction counter-evidence. For inclusion we require the counter-evidence to come from:
- A named, professionally qualified expert, or
- A peer-reviewed publication, or
- A public report signed by a panel of named professionally qualified experts (e.g. the Shoo Lee International Expert Panel), or
- A formal statistical body (e.g. the Royal Statistical Society).
Selection criteria — officials
An individual or body appears on the Officials & Failings catalogue only if their role is examined in the Thirlwall Inquiry or in public court/judgment material. We do not include officials without a documented, inquiry-relevant role.
Selection criteria — per-baby pages
Each of the seventeen babies has a page because each is named in the criminal indictment. We use only court-assigned codes and publicly reported facts. We do not contact families.
Wording
Summaries are written in our own words. Raw trial transcripts and raw court documents are not rewritten or paraphrased for content; we link to them instead. Quotations are marked as such and attributed.
Citations
Every evidence issue, timeline event, official, and expert has at least one named source. Where a primary document is hosted by a companion archive (e.g. lucyletbyinnocence.com), we link there and credit them.
Updates
The site is versioned in Git. Every factual change is a commit with a timestamp and an explanation. Pages carry a visible “last updated” date where content changes frequently.
Generation pipeline
Content is authored in JSON data files (per category) and rendered with Next.js. Our /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt endpoints are generated server-side from the same data files so that any update to a timeline event, evidence issue or official automatically appears in those AI-crawler feeds without human intervention.