and so here she was in 2013 posing for a picture to promote the appeal. this whole case has caused people like claire to think. it was really positive. the staff right from my first appointment listened. clear s son rory was born at the countess in 2016 when letby was working there. he is seven months now. i do think what if? i do think i was very lucky that my labour had gone really well and actually we came out of the theatre and were together and i did not have any time away from the baby but yes, anybody who was there at that time has probably had that thought in their head. happy singing. lucy letby leaves behind a city full of parents with unanswerable questions and raw shocked at what happened in their maternity unit in their city where their children were born. phil mccann, bbc north west tonight, chester. that maternity unit where lucy letby
worked too soon to be demolished, it is being replaced. the scene of her crimes will be erased from the city landscape but the memory of her victims and those whose life she tried to take will certainly live on. thanks, phil. this has been an extremely distressing case. today we ve heard shock, outrage and grief people struggling to come to terms with why an outwardly caring and compassionate young nurse was in reality a serial killer who, as the prosecution lawyer said weaponised her craft to maim and murder. we don t know why she did it we may never know. there s talk tonight of reviews and public inquiries huge questions for the countess of chester trust and the wider nhs to address. how after repeated warnings was lucy letby allowed to carry out a year long campaign of murder.
antidepressants by her gp after receiving the letter which she says she is still taking. she said she had previously had quite an active social life outside work, regularly attending salsa classes and going on holiday and out with friends. since november 2020, lucy letby has remained in police custody across four different prisons. lucy letby s crimes will resonate across the country but particularly in the city of chester, where the hospital is based. our reporter phil mccann is from chester himself and he joins us from there now. annabel, chester is known for being a beautiful city and it is also a small city so when big things happen here, they really resonate. it doesn t get any bigger than this, that ugly building where lucy letby s worked at the countess, is a scene of happy memories for thousands of people across this
region. i have been there for both of my kids. those memories are overtaken by the fact that is no mac a crime scene, one of the biggest killers of babies in british history. i have been speaking to people and got from them an overwhelming sense of shock but literally disbelief. # let s make music, have some fun #. the maternity department at the countess has made memories and changed lives for thousands around west cheshire and north wales. darla, asher and fran were all born there. i would recommend it to anybody. definitely. he was five weeks premature so we stayed at the neonatal unit for two weeks. we could not fault them, they were absolutely amazing. lucy letby s trial began before some of the babies that come here to music in chester every week were even born. it was in the news when gaby was expecting her baby.
doctor breary believes that police investigation would never have happened if he and his colleagues had not persisted. i am sure, yes, that was the intention of the executives, was to somehow close this case. today, nearly eight years after those first suspicions were raised to the trust, lucy letby s guilt was confirmed by the jury. at the end of the day there is only one serial killer of babies that has worked in the organisation and the executive team were not the people who were responsible for the deaths of those babies. doctor gilbay left the countess of chester at the end of last year on an unrelated matter. she is now suing for constructive dismissal. she says the nhs needs to examine how events in the neonatal in the neonatal unit were handled. they had some opportunities to reach out to others who might have been able to get to the bottom of what was happening and indeed to stop it from happening and i think those opportunities