Tells us Social Media users made their lives worse. Will the Laws Change . Hello. Welcome to newsnight, home of late Night Talk and takes. A secretive Air Base in the Indian Oceans triggered a row pitting colonial history against the new cold war. Our guests include Samuel Kasumu once Race Policy Advisor to Borisjohnson And Coco khan podcast queen, whose advice for Boris Johnson Cant be broadcast. First to newsnight s political king, nick watt. We need to begin with that name because we need to begin with that name because he is making the headlines as the because he is making the headlines as the news hits the Airwaves Customer as the news hits the Airwaves Customer yes, as the news hits the Airwaves Customeryes, borisjohnson, the front customeryes, borisjohnson, The Front Page customeryes, borisjohnson, The Front Page of customeryes, borisjohnson, The Front Page of the daily telegraph, he says front page of the daily telegraph, he says that the uk needs a referendum. He says that the
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
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
There are four families who havent had verdict delivered on what happened to their children, so that is something of course that the Crown Prosecution Service will be taking into account. Of course many questions about how a nurse working on a Neonatal Ward, an ordinary woman in her 20s, a woman who the jury woman in her 20s, a woman who the jury he heard repeatedly from seeing her messages, seeing her social media posts, was living what would appear to be an extremely normal life, was going on holiday, drinking with herfriends, spending time with her pets, and yet when she was on the ward, when she was at work, we know now that she was essentially killing children in her care, in some cases she used doses of insulin which she would inject into the baby so bodies, in some cases she would overfeed them with milk or liquids, and one thing which was described by the prosecution chillingly as her favourite way to kill children was administration of air, an injection of air into the bodies
The babies were attacked Betweenjune 2015 and and june 2016. She was charged with 22 counts of attempting babies in her care. Some were injected with air. Others were force fed milk. The Crown Prosecution Service announced on the steps that they weapon eyes to her craft as a nurse. The trial has considered harrowing evidence from. They watched that children die and often harrowing circumstances. The families are very much at the forefront of peoples mines here at court today. Lucy letby was herself in the Court Building was not present in the dock to hear the final verdict delivered. When the first vertex work delivered several days ago, she was present. She sobbed at the dock at one point put her head on the desk and cried. But for the last couple of days, even though she has been here in the Holding Cells at Manchester Crown court, she refused to come and sit in the dock for the conclusion of her trial. She will be sentenced on monday in thejudge her trial. She will be sentenced on m