Hello. My names muted i from cheshire police. Can we step in two seconds . Oh, yes. This is the moment when the net closed in. Yep, not a problem. In tears, lucy letby is brought out of her house under arrest and taken away. It seemed unbelievable a neonatal nurse, a protector of the most vulnerable members of society. Lucy letby had worked at the countess of chester Childrens Hospital since 2012. In early 2015, she qualified to work in the neonatal high dependency and intensive care units. Onjune 8 that year, she committed her first murder. For the next 12 months, the attacks continued. Injune 2016, two babies died in two days. 0n the third day, another baby collapsed. Letby was taken off clinical duties. Two years later, letby was arrested for the first time. Police found medical records under her bed and hand scrawled notes. I am a horrible, evil person, one says. I am evil. I did this, says another. I dont deserve to live. I killed them on purpose because im not good enough to care
To move very quickly. Dan roan, bbc news, sydney. This programme continues on bbc one. After a trial lasting 10 months, a jury decided nurse lucy letby deliberately injected seven babies with air, force fed others milk and poisoned some with insulin. Her victims included twins and two boys in a set of identical triplets, who she murdered within 2a hours of each other. Consultants who told Hospital Managers they had concerns about letby were forced to apologise to herfor raising suspicions. Well ask why bosses at the countess of Chester Hospital, where she worked, failed to investigate the deaths for so long. There is only one Serial Killer of babies. The Executive Team were not the people who were responsible for the deaths of those babies, but they had some opportunities to get to the bottom of what was happening. And why does a Health Professional trained to save lives become a Serial Killer . The person who kills within a Healthcare Setting has already developed the desire to kill,
The fatal stabbing of Elianne Andam on wednesday. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. A 14 Year Old Girl and a bus driver have been killed after a coach overturned on the m53 this morning. It was taking pupils to two schools on merseyside when it crashed with dozens of children on board. Eight children were taken to hospital. Two of them have serious injuries. Our Correspondentjudith Moritz is at the scene. Yes, and the two schools involved taking children from a very wide catchment area, hence them being on this motorway so early this morning, they come from as far away as chester, 20 miles or so from here. Its a schooljourney they chester, 20 miles or so from here. Its a School Journey they were chester, 20 miles or so from here. Its a schooljourney they were used to making day after day, but today they never got as far as school, and tonight two families are coming to terms with terrible loss. Its the school run which ended in tragedy. The children on this bus should ha
Coming up in bbc news, 4 0 after a morning session with the afternoon for is under way. Good afternoon. A school coach full of children has overturned on the m53 motorway in merseyside. Its understood the coach hit the central reservation during rush hour this morning. Fifty patients are being assessed at the scene and a Major Incident has been declared. The coach was carrying pupils to two separate Grammar Schools. 0ur correspondent yunus mulla is close to the scene now on the wirral. Yunus, whats the latest . Im just a short distance away from the scene of this accident this morning, just a few hundred yards over my shoulder is the m53 motorway close to Junction Five. It was about eight oclock this morning that North West Ambulance service described this as a Major Incident. It involved a school bus, which ended up on its side. We understand there was a collision of some kind. That bus had pupils from two schools in west kirby, west Kirby Grammar School and Calday Grange Grammar Scho
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