For the parents of Lucy Letby’s victims, the last 10 months in court have yielded unbearable agony after unimaginable loss. But when the first guilty verdicts were read out in court, it was Letby’s own mother who appeared to find her crimes most inconceivable of all, falling into her husband’s arms weeping with the words, “You can’t be serious; this can’t be right.”
Lucy Letby worked as a registered nurse in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester between 2011 and 2016, before being moved to clerical duties from 2016 to 2018.