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
They heard about lucy letby s life and what she was like as a nurse and crucially medical evidence that pointed towards lucy letby as a Serial Killer ofjudgment, one of the most, in fact, the most prolific killer of Serial Killer of children. Our north of england correspondent Judith Moritz followed the case from the start and sent this report. She thought shed get away with it, but this was the moment the game was up. Lucy, is it . My name is. With the cheshire police. Do you mind if i step in for two seconds . Yes. Thank you. Behind the door of this ordinary suburban house, britains most prolific baby killer was finally arrested three years after her murder spree began. Just take a seat there for me, lucy. Ill move that seat forward a bit. Ive just had knee surgery. 0h, right, 0k. She worked here, on the Neonatal Unit at the countess of chester hospital. Her role to care for the most premature and vulnerable infants, but that couldnt have been further from her mind. The crying, ive n
Spikes in deaths. they did try and act on it. they did try and raise it, we re told, with senior management. but the great tragedy is that they say they weren t listened to. they weren t heard. that is dominic use our health correspondent was about the day outside countess of chester hospital where the crimes were committed in the neonatal unit by lucy letby. the trial here, i have heard so much evidence spread over a period of nine months, it was nine months today since the opening statements made, since a jury was sent out to reach their deliberations and verdicts on the 10th ofjuly. we spoke earlier to former chief crown prosecutor,
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 spikes in deaths. they did try and act on it. they did try and raise it, we re told, with senior management. but the great tragedy is that they say they weren t listened to. they weren t heard. detective superintendent paul hughes was the chief investigating 0fficer on the case for cheshire police.