Prosecutors said Letby, 33, was a “calculated opportunist” who used the vulnerabilities of premature and sick infants to camouflage her acts.
Lucy Letby has been convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others at a hospital neonatal unit.
Some of the children were subjected to repeated attempts to kill them by the “cold, cruel and relentless” band 5 staff nurse, the trial – which began at Manchester Crown Court last October – heard. Letby’s presence when collapses took place was first mentioned to senior management by the unit’s head consultant in late June 2015.
Letby was due to return to the neonatal unit in March 2017, but the move did not take place as soon after police were contacted by the hospital trust. The nurse was arrested at her semi-detached home in Westbourne Road, Chester, at 6am on July 3 2018.On one green Post-it note she wrote: “I don’t deserve to live. I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough to care for them”, “I am a horrible evil person” and in capital letters “I am evil I did this”.
She was also prepared to publicly trash the reputations of colleagues “in an effort to get away with it”, the prosecutor added. Letby, from Hereford, denied all the allegations. Her mother Susan, 63, shielded her face as she wept on the opposite side of the public gallery and was comforted by husband John, 77, who later leaned forward with his head in his hands. At the start of deliberations on the afternoon of August 11 the jury delivered verdicts on a further six counts.
The grandmother of Child G, a baby girl, gasped as Letby was found guilty of the infant’s attempted murder. Letby was not in the dock as the above verdicts were returned as she did not want to come up from the cells.
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