Side to her personality. And it was interesting to get her messages because precisely you could see how hypocritical she was pretending to be very good friends with the nurse and a few messages later on she was calling her incompetent and, you know, undermining everybody in the unit certainly was very gracious to her management who were extremely supportive of her and yet spent her time denigrating her management, saying that there was poor skill mix every single time that she was on shift. All of this provided perfect cover for what she was doing because people thought, well, yes, its true. We we all being stretched. We have babies that have special needs, but its difficult needs, but its difficult for people. Devious personalities have to look the part. Thats not thats not true. And that definitely wasnt true. She looked like The Girl Next Door who liked betting on horses, enjoyed herjob, was trying to be one of the best. But its all about control. Ive rarely come across a personalit
of for otherfamilies in other units. we should stress this is an extremely rare occurrence. you know, it s vanishingly rare that this kind of thing happens, that these dreadful murders and attempted murders and assaults on children would take place. but when it does happen, it causes so much distress and, obviously, anxiety forfamilies who find themselves using facilities like this. so they want to provide that reassurance. but we know that there are moves under way to improve neonatal care. for example, the use of data that will show up red flags when there is an unexpected spike in the number of children who are dying in these units. you know, these are very, very vulnerable children. a lot of them are very sick when they come into these neonatal units. and if there is a spike in the data, then that should be acted on and looked into. now, the great tragedy of what happened here at the countess of chester was the staff did notice
0ur health correspondent dominic hughes is outside the countess of chester hospital. he has more reaction on what the hospital s current administration had to say about today s verdict. the current medical director, dr nigel scawn, he came out and made a statement. he didn t take any questions, but he did say that the hospital board were extremely sorry for what had happened. he said there has been a profound impact on the community, on staff and on patients. he said that staff were devastated by what had happened. he said lessons continued to be learned. he was grateful for the staff cooperating with both the inquiry and the trial for giving evidence at the trial. he thanked the police for the care that they had shown to the investigation and also for the support they gave to the families involved. and he thanked them, also, for the support to those families. and he said, since lucy letby worked here , he said,
asjudith was sitting there, these series of verdicts raise questions, not least about the care at the countess of chester hospital on the neonatal unit where lucy letby was carrying out her crimes. this trail covered a one year period between june 2015 to june covered a one year period between june 2015 tojune 2016, but we heard in the afternoon that other places like the repose women s hospitals are working at cheshire police looking at the periods of time where she did training placements there, the envy of this investigation is widened to look at her whole career. and the questions also about why concerns raised about lucy were not looked at soon?
have been here through the trial listening to the evidence but also with the families at the heart of it and the medical profession. it is such a rare thing that someone working in hospital moves from being a carer, saving lives, to someone taking them. that is what lucy letby was doing after time in the neonatal unit at the countess chester hospital. the court heard about the way she killed these berries or try to kill their babies in her care using innocuous subsidies like milk or insulin orair, using innocuous subsidies like milk or insulin or air, the things that should ve brought life, lucy letby was to it to take life away. she will be sentenced at manchester crown court by the justice. it is worth saying she did not appear for the finalfew verdicts. worth saying she did not appear for the final few verdicts. the first vertex when she was found guilty of