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Originally Posted by Derek
If there was enough evidence to substantiate charges and to hold her on remand I wonder what has changed?
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I wondered that. Could it be they expected more evidence that failed to materialise? Were they under pressure to look like something was being done so charged to early? A combination of both maybe?
This part is interesting:
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Rebecca Leighton also faced one charge of theft of medication belonging to the hospital. This charge has also been discontinued. Mr Afzal said: "While there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction on this charge, we have decided it is not in the public interest to proceed as Rebecca Leighton would be likely to receive a nominal penalty given the time she has already spent in custody."
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This leads me to
speculate that the evidence they had was she had unauthorised access to the saline stores and then made a seemingly obvious connection to the murders but didn't actually have evidence that she contaminated them.