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
So those doctors sat with you. They poured out their worries. Did they talk about lucy letby . No, no. They talked actually at the time they didnt name anybody. What they talked about was in what they told when they contacted the chief constable, the fact that a nurse had been moved. They didnt actually name the nurse to me because i was at that meeting. I didnt have a lot of time because i had to make a decision on whether we were commencing an investigation or not. So i was focused on actually what does this mean medically . They told me that somebody had been moved and all the events had stopped. But i wasnt really drawn into that that much at that time. My first thoughts were as an sio, that if i had been doing something and Somebody Else had been moved, then i would stop as well. So, you know, i didnt get drawn into much about what that meant. I was more focused at that point on what has actually happened. So thats what our line of investigation was going to focus on initially. So
Repeatedly attacking the children suggests a degree of thrill and excitement about the act of killing. doctor, thank you very much indeed forjoining us, doctor naomi murphy. what she spoke about what some of the distressing evidence that we heard about. incredibly sick and premature babies who were in some cases doing well and inexplicably took this turn and collapsed in some cases. medics managed to survive them and of course we know in many cases they died. and thinking about the parents and families of those children who are to experience that but then had to sit through this trial and relieve their darkness of
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One of the major questions surrounding this case is why would lucy letby do this? why are qualified and registered nurse, somebody who had chosen to enter a caring profession would then go on to murder and attempted murder davies in her care. we rejoined now by dr naomi murphy, who is a consultant clinical forensic psychologist. doctor murphy, thank you forjoining us. i think one of the things that has come out of this trial, we have learnt so much about lucy letby s methods, about the medical impact that it had on the children. but one thing that is still missing is motivation. really nobody can say why she has done this. i motivation. really nobody can say why she has done this. motivation. really nobody can say why she has done this. i think there are a number why she has done this. i think there are a number of why she has done this. i think there are a number of reasons why she has done this. i think there are a number of reasons why - why she has done this. i think there are