Trial and beyond lucy letby, the general care on the unit has been called into question. Called into question. Yes, it has, it featured called into question. Yes, it has, it featured as called into question. Yes, it has, it featured as part called into question. Yes, it has, it featured as part of called into question. Yes, it has, it featured as part of lucy called into question. Yes, it has, | it featured as part of lucy letbys case, there were repeated claims of staffing issues in the hospital, that it had taken on more babies than they usually would, the prematurity levels which the hospital could not cope with. It came up during the trial that at various stages, there were some times issues with equipment, so this has been a problematic case as well for the hospital at that time, and the state it was in, and obviously, as we have heard, there are now calls for a Public Inquiry, which will be able to drill into the detail and get to grips with exactly what was going on, aside from
Conclusion. She will be sentenced here on monday at Manchester Crown court. She is now the most prolific killer of children in modern times. Shejudith morris sent this report. She thought shed get away with it, but this was the moment the game was up. Lucy, is it . Do you mind if i step in for a few seconds . Yes. Behind the door of this ordinary suburban house, britains most prolific baby killer was arrested three years after her murder spree began. Just sit there for me, lucy. Ive just had knee surgery. She worked here, on the Neonatal Unit at the countess of Chester Hospital. Her role, to care for the most vulnerable infants, but that couldnt have been further from her mind. The crying, ive never heard anything like it since. It was screaming. It was screaming, and i was like, what is the matter with them . Legally, we cant identify the families in this case, but their stories are distressing. These are the parents of twin boys born prematurely in 2015. Their mum was taking milk to
The case. It was only a year after she stopped working as a nurse that the police came above. Medical records were found in her room, diaries, notes she had written including, iam diaries, notes she had written including, i am evil, diaries, notes she had written including, iam evil, i have diaries, notes she had written including, i am evil, i have done this. ,. , ~. , including, i am evil, i have done this. , ~. ,. This. She is a killer and choosing her words. This. She is a killer and choosing her words, she this. She is a killer and choosing her words, she is this. She is a killer and choosing her words, she is evil. This. She is a killer and choosing her words, she is evil. You this. She is a killer and choosing her words, she is evil. You have | her words, she is evil. You have interviewed her words, she is evil. You have interviewed her, her words, she is evil. You have interviewed her, watched her words, she is evil. You have interviewed her, watched her. Her words, she is evil
To the door of her home. You can see her opening the door. They went inside for ten or 15 minutes and then you see lucy b brought out to then you see lucy b brought out to the Waiting Police Car. You can see the Waiting Police Car. You can see the expression on her face the Waiting Police Car. You can see the expression on herface in this footage as she has let out to the Waiting Police Car to be taken and questioned. She was arrested on three separate occasions before those 22 charges were actually brought. There were 20 hours or so of Police Interviews carried out with her. I want to show you a very small excerpt of those interviews that the police has shared with us. It is difficult to hear, but we have put the words on the screen. She was being talked about the police and they are asking her if she realises why she is there, why she might have been called for questioning. You can see there that she is saying she was aware. As a nursing team they were aware. As a nursing team they w
They didnt think it appropriate to go the police at that stage. Instead, the hospital asked the Royal College of paediatrics and child health to look at what had been going on in the unit. In november, the college called for the hospital to conduct a thorough external, independent review of each unexpected neonatal death. But the deaths werent investigated fully. Was this a cover up . I dont know how youd define a cover up but to us the. The evidence in front of us was quite clear it felt that they were trying to engineer some sort of narrative or way out of this that didnt involve going to the police. And if you want to call that a cover up then, thats a cover up. There were deaths and near deaths, which could not be explained, and were unexpected. And thatjust does not happen on a neonatal unit. But unfortunately, there was a concern about how it would look. So the reputation of the organisation and protecting that reputation was a big factor in how people responded to the concerns r