in for these catastrophic events which were unexpected and unexplained, lucy letby is there, and then somebody else said, yes, ifound that. and then someone else had the same response. and they all realised that the common factor for each of them was letby s presence on the unit. injune 2016, two babies died on consecutive days. 13 children had now died. lucy letby was on shift for all of them. the day after the second death, the nurse was due back on the unit. paediatrician steve brearey rang the duty manager asking for letby to be replaced. the manager refused. i challenged her. i said, well, are you saying that you re making this decision against the wishes of seven consultant paediatricians? and she said, yes. and i said, well, if you re making this decision, are you taking responsibility for anything that might happen tomorrow to any
and it has taken us to understand that lucy letby is a killer. - as the trial ended today, letby refused to come into the courtroom. prosecutors later reflecting on the scale of her deceit. in her hands, innocuous substances like air, milk or medication like insulin would become lethal. she perverted her learning and weaponised her craft to inflict harm, grief and death. the nurse even wrote this sympathy card to the parents of one baby and searched for many of the other families on facebook. not a single thing that i ve ever seen or witnessed of lucy would let me for a moment believe that she was capable of the things she was being accused of. dawn is one of lucy letby s childhood friends and has watched events unfold with disbelief. she is the kindest person
defence was that she was a dedicated, professional nurse, and one of her colleagues, doctor stephen browett, called her nice lucy when it was first noticed that she was a connective influence between the cases. so that shows that even people in power who eventually did blow the whistle did not comprehend that miss letby was capable of the apps that she was. and the evidence that unfolded over those nine months was of a woman who enjoyed time with her friends, they saw her social media post, some of her messages, going on holidays and nights out, but then in the workplace was murdering babies in her care. she workplace was murdering babies in her care. ,, .,, . ,., workplace was murdering babies in her care. ,, .,, ~ i. ., her care. she was. when you look at some of the her care. she was. when you look at some of the messages her care. she was. when you look at some of the messages and - her care. she was. when you look at some of the messages and her- her care. she was. when you lo
we re going to stop. it s not helping. we want him to die in your arms. 0n the unit, there were typically up to three deaths a year, but in 2015, they had that number in the month ofjune alone. and the pattern continued, with babies dying or coming close to death. the common factor lucy letby. this staffing sheet shows she was the only employee who was present every time there was a suspicious event. dr stephen brearey led the team of seven consultants on the unit who shared joint concerns about letby. he s now speaking publicly about their experience for the first time. it s something that nobody really wants to consider, you know, that a member of staff might be harming the babies under your care. things came to a head when two out
though the paediatricians feared being reported to the regulator, they kept going, pressurising executives to call the police, something the trust eventually did in may 2017. the reputation of the organisation and protecting that reputation was a big factor in how people responded to the concerns raised. they were dragged kicking and screaming, the executive team, to call in the police. that would certainly be the conclusion that i would reach. at the time letby was arrested in july 2018, she was still working at the trust. no disciplinary action had been taken against her. the strong opinion was that there would be nothing found. there was a brief overlap of three or four days between myself and the outgoing medical director, and his parting words to me, to my surprise, were, you need to refer the paediatricians to the gmc. the former medical director denies threatening to report the doctors to the general medical council for misconduct.