Rachel Aviv — 'A British Nurse Was Found Guilty of Killing Seven Babies. Did She Do It?' (The New Yorker, 13 May 2024)

Reference summary of Rachel Aviv's May 2024 New Yorker long-form piece, the first major international journalistic investigation of the Letby convictions. Aviv's piece was published 13 May 2024 and was geo-blocked in the UK during the June-July 2024 Child K retrial — a reporting-restrictions decision that attracted significant media-law commentary at the time. The piece walks through the statistical problems with the shift-rota chart, the Roche Cobas insulin-assay evidence, the clinical-pathology record for several indicted cases, and the institutional-narrative context. Aviv situates the case within the broader pattern of nurse-serial-killer prosecutions internationally (de Berk, Geen, Cullen) and their characteristic reliance on statistical-cluster methodology in the absence of direct evidence. For the Letby public-interest record, the Aviv piece is load-bearing: it is the piece that broke the specialist conviction-safety critique into the international mainstream and changed which readers and journalists would subsequently engage with the case. Readers are directed to the original on newyorker.com; the reporting is long-form and not suitable for piece-wise extract reproduction here.