2023-08-20 21:55:00
A British nurse was found guilty on Friday of murdering seven newborn babies and attempting to kill six others in the neonatal unit of the hospital where she worked, becoming the UK’s most prolific child murderer.
Is regarding Lucy Letby, a 33-year-old nurse who will be sentenced on Monday the 21st and who was put on trial for ten months following being accused of injecting her sick or premature young victims with air, overfeeding them with milk or poisoning them with insulin.
“I’m bad, I did it. I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough, I don’t deserve to live, I’m a horrible person,” she confessed in a brief submitted as evidence. “Please help me I can’t do this anymore I hate my life I want someone to help me but they can’t.”
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The nurse was arrested following a series of deaths in the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital in north-west England between June 2015 and June 2016. She was working on especially vulnerable, premature or sick children. She took advantage when she was alone and, in some cases, she tried several times to kill the babies, if a first intervention was not enough for her.
Described by the prosecution as a “calculating” woman who used killing methods that “did not leave much of a trace”Letby had repeatedly denied harming the children: “Time and time once more, she hurt babies, in an environment that should have been safe for them and their families,” said Attorney General Pascale Jones, who called the killings “a complete betrayal of the trust placed in her.”
Lucy Letby: from nurse to murderer of children
Originally from Hereford, in the west of England, Letby studied nursing at Chester University. “I always wanted to work with children,” he told Manchester Crown Court during the trial.. Letby graduated in 2011 and began working full-time at the Countess of Chester Hospital the following year, joining the neonatal unit.
In 2015, she qualified to work in infant intensive care, which would have allowed her to work with the sickest babies on the unit. He had an active social life, attended salsa classes, traveled and went to the gymand was said to have repeatedly searched Facebook for the parents of the babies he attacked.
letby was accused of harming 17 babies, some of them just days old, between June 2015 and June 2016 (British justice did not allow the names of the babies to be reported and instead they are referred to as babies A to Q.) In most cases, it is believed that she injected them with air, but prosecutors also accused her of introducing insulin and milk, among other products that would end up being “lethal” to children.
His victims included a twin brother and sister and two triplets and Letby’s last victims were triplets, referred to by the court as babies O and P. Child O died shortly following Letby returned from a holiday in Ibiza in June 2016, while child P died a day following his brother.
At the trial, it was learned that colleagues expressed concern following noticing that Letby was on duty when each of the babies collapsed, and some of the newborns were attacked just as their parents were leaving their cribs.. The prosecution said that Letby “cheated” to his colleagues by making them believe that the series of deaths was “just a streak of bad luck“.
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Since June 2015 several paediatricians at the Countess of Chester Hospital, where the defendant worked, had expressed concern regarding the unusual “significant” number of deaths or serious collapses in their service, many described as “unexplained” or “unexpected”.
Following the death of two triplets in June 2016, Letby was removed from the neonatal unit and assigned to administrative duties. “It changed my life, at that moment they took me out of the support system that I had in the unit, they put me in a role that I did not enjoy and I had to pretend that I was a volunteer”Letby said.
At trial, Letby repeatedly denied hurting or meaning to hurt the babies, saying that “that is completely once morest what it is to be a nurseShe had even suggested that a “gang” of four hospital consultants had conspired to shift the blame onto her “to cover up the failures at the hospital.”
The nurse said that was ‘devastating’ when she received a letter from the Royal College of Nursing blaming her for the babies’ deaths and that she was prescribed antidepressants, which she is still taking, and she admitted to having thoughts of harming herself.
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Letby was arrested and released twice, her first arrest in July 2018. In her third arrest in 2020, she was indicted and taken into custody. Among the items found during a search of Letby’s home was a sticky note on which she wrote: “I don’t deserve to live. I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough to take care of them.”
Letby claimed that the note was written around the time she was removed from the neonatal unit, leaving her with the feeling that “I had done something wrong“.
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