Baby murdering nurse Lucy Letby said she felt suffocated by her parents.
Monster Lucy Letby will die behind in prison after being hit with a life sentence for killing seven babies while working as a nurse at an NHS hospital. We take a closer look at the upbringing which led her to become a serial child killer.
She secured a Bachelor of Science degree in Child Nursing from the University of Chester in 2011, and her parents were so delighted with the feat that they took out an advertisement in the local paper. But her dad, now 77, and mum, 63, "hated it" when their only child did not return home after graduating from university, something she admitted made her feel "constantly guilty".
She told another: “My parents worry massively about everything and anything, hate that I live alone etc. I feel bad because I know it’s really hard for them especially as I’m an only child, and they mean well, just a little suffocating at times and constantly feel guilty." Lecturer in criminology at Loughborough University Dominic Wilmott said he believes some of the nurse's texts suggest she wanted to 'garner sympathy' after the babies' deaths.
They were quick to leap to her defence and she had leaned on them when she had a key meeting with hospital bosses in January 2017. The parents went to the meeting alongside their daughter, six months after she was removed from her role. They read 'Happy Birthday Mummy', and had been sent by Susan, her mum. Her mum was such a devoted parent she pleaded with officers: "I did it. Take me instead" when Letby was arrested again at her childhood home in June 2019 and November 2020.
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