discussion UK nurse found guilty of murdering 7 babies, attempted murder of 7 others

[mystery]

Lucy Letby trial: ‘Poisoner’ neo-natal nurse accused of murdering 7 babies
 

Lucy Letby – described as “the constant malevolent presence when things took a turn for the worse for these 17 children” – is accused of trying to murder some of the infants multiple times. One of the babies is alleged to have been murdered at just one day old – pronounced dead within 90 minutes of Ms Letby coming on duty.
 

An investigation was launched but when a cause could not be found, consultants noticed that the inexplicable collapses and deaths had “one common denominator”. Mr Johnson continued: “Many of the events in this case occurred on the night shifts. When upon Lucy Letby was moved on to day shifts, the collapses and deaths moved to the day shifts.”
 

Child A, a baby boy, was the first to be attacked and murdered at just a day old, on 8 June 2015. The baby was born just a minute behind his twin sister at 8.31pm the previous day. It is alleged that Letby tried to kill child B, the twin sister of child A, at about midnight on 9 June 2015. The court heard that child B required some resuscitation at birth on 7 June but recovered quickly and stabilised. But shortly before midnight, her blood/oxygen levels fell and nasal prongs providing additional oxygen had been dislodged.

Lucy Letby trial - latest: Nurse 'killed two out of three triplets' - and 'smiled after killing another premature baby girl at fourth attempt'

The prosecution alleges Letby murdered two out of three triplets - these are Children O and P. Triplet Child O died 'within a few minutes' of Letby entering neonatal unit.

 

The Guardian: Nurse Lucy Letby guilty of murdering seven babies at Chester hospital

 

A neonatal nurse has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six more, making her the worst child serial killer in modern British history and raising urgent questions over whether her crimes could have been stopped.

 

Lucy Letby, 33, was convicted of the “persistent, calculated and cold-blooded” murder of five premature boys and two newborn girls on the unit where she worked at the Countess of Chester hospital in north-west England.

As ministers ordered an independent inquiry into how Letby was able to carry out her horrifying campaign, a whistleblower told the Guardian that he believed babies would have been saved if hospital executives had acted sooner on concerns about the nurse.

Dr Stephen Brearey, who was the first to alert executives to Letby’s connection to unusual deaths and collapses, said he felt bosses had been “neglectful” by failing to contact the police earlier.

 

Letby was in her mid-20s when she preyed on highly vulnerable babies between June 2015 and June 2016, often attacking them just moments after their parents or nurses had left their side. Police were finally contacted in 2017 and she was arrested in 2018.

Her victims included two identical triplet brothers, killed within 24 hours of each other, a newborn weighing less than 1kg (2lb) who was fatally injected with air, and a girl born 10 weeks premature who was murdered on the fourth attempt.

 

Bereaved parents gasped and wept in the public gallery as the verdicts were delivered over several dramatic days at Manchester crown court, after one of the longest-running murder trials in recent times.

Edited August 19, 2023 by mystery

[Matthew]

Not a real life Annie Wilkes 

[commander]

That’s truly harrowing . May all those souls Rest In Peace.

[Shelter]

Just shocking. 

[chessguy99]

10 minutes ago, Matthew said:

Not a real life Annie Wilkes 

Annie Wilkes character is loosely based on Genene Jones, an  American nurse in the early '80's who was called the "Angel of Death". She was convicted of killing two children and an attempted murder of a child. Its been speculated that she may have been responsible for over 60 deaths.

[James_Dean]

She's sick 

[KFC]

She's going straight to hell 

[Oxy]

Imagine if one of the mothers had difficulties getting pregnant one and when she finally did, here comes a sick **** and destroys her wishes. 

[ConceptD]

1 hour ago, chessguy99 said:

Annie Wilkes character is loosely based on Genene Jones, an  American nurse in the early '80's who was called the "Angel of Death". She was convicted of killing two children and an attempted murder of a child. Its been speculated that she may have been responsible for over 60 deaths.

She’s not even the first of her kind in UK lol. There has been numerous of these sick fucks over time and even in recent memory. 
 

There were people defending her a couple of days ago saying she might be falsely accused and that they’re going off of circumstantial evidence, but I’m glad to see that the past couple of days of evidence presented to the court seems to have shut them up. 

[Peroxide]

Literally the worst kind of human possible.

[Karla Cabello]

why some nurses do this. i find it so weird

[Stardom]

Mess I completely forgot about this case. I thought she would've already been sentenced by now 

[Afterglow]

Horrible.

 

Idk how people trust humans in Healthcare. Its all pretty much done by machines and computers at this point anyway. 

[Taylucifer]

can’t believe sick people like this exist, i wish these twisted people would just drop dead

 

 

Edited October 12, 2022 by Taylucifer

[305]

This is so scary to think that people that studied for years to help others can turn out to be like this

[lover.]

She is going to get it in prison 

[Cyanide]

Why?!?!?! Why would anyone do this???

[Miss Show Business]

Absolutely sickening... Hope she has to spend the rest of her life in solitary confinement after her fellow inmates find out what she did. 

[Protocol]

Unfortunately psychopaths find their way into medical professions and they have the power to enact their cruelest fantasies. Or cases of Munchausen by Proxy where they want to be the saviour at the last second and they create dangerous circumstances to be able to do so, or get off on other people's grief as they "tried everything they could but couldn't save them".

[MonsterJohn]

what kind of monster doing that to newborn children and their families

[Ombre]

She deserves prison either way but Im curious...how do they know she did this purposefully and was not just negligent/stupid? Are there video cameras in these wards?

[Canonical Ensembl]

How could she get away so many times before someone noticed?  

Edited October 13, 2022 by Canonical Ensembl

[mystery]

She was finally convicted today and will rot in prison. The poor families...

[Sparksfly88]

Do they not have cameras in these UK hospitals? 

[NEX]

On 10/12/2022 at 6:12 PM, Oxy said:

Imagine if one of the mothers had difficulties getting pregnant one and when she finally did, here comes a sick **** and destroys her wishes. 

That's actually what happened in one of the cases. The couple were told they'll never be able to get pregnant, but somehow years down the line she unexpectedly did. And they had twins. And Lucy killed them both. 

 

I'm watching the BBC documentary about it right now. I'm not normally shocked by these things, but this particular one is truly shocking all the way to the bones.