Lucy Letby was a nurse working on a neonatal unit when seven of her patients would suddenly die
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0:00The Crimes of Lucy Letby, the nurse who became a murderer. It’s supposed to be the safest room in the hospital. For
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9 secondsmore than a year at the Countess of Chester, parents carried their premature babies into the neonatal unit, believing
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16 secondsthey were in expert, compassionate hands. Those hands belonged to Lucy Leby. Between June 2015 and June 2016,
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27 secondsshe turned routine night shifts into opportunities to harm. Prosecutors showed she injected infants with
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35 secondsinsulin, introduced air into their bloodstreams, and interfered with breathing tubes. A jury convicted her of
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43 secondsmurdering seven babies, and attempting to murder seven others, making her the most prolific child killer in modern
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50 secondsBritish history. It started with child A. He was stable, then he wasn’t. Less
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57 secondsthan an hour and a half after Lucy Letby came on shift, he was dead. His skin marked by a strange blotchy hue no one
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1 minute, 6 secondscould explain. The next day, his twin sister crashed in exactly the same way and only just survived.
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1 minute, 15 secondsThen the unit tipped over. Two more babies lost in quick succession. Then a fifth discovered bleeding from the mouth with letby be standing at the incubator.
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1 minute, 26 secondsDeaths that had been rare became a surge. Every collapse was abrupt,
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1 minute, 32 secondsinexplicable, and when consultants laid the charts against the staff schedule.
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1 minute, 37 secondsThe same name appeared each time. Letby consultant lead Steven Brerier reported
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1 minute, 44 secondssuspicions of deliberate harm by nurse Lucy Letby Hospital management attributed events to chance and required
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1 minute, 52 secondsapology to let police referral 2017 after seven deaths. Operation Hummingbird alleged methods air injection insulin poisoning two victims.
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2 minutes, 6 secondsEvidence seized at residents included unauthorized medical records and handwritten notes stating, “I killed
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2 minutes, 13 secondsthem on purpose because I’m not good enough and I am evil. I did this.” Her
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2 minutes, 20 secondstrial opened in October 2022 at Manchester Crown Court. The prosecution
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2 minutes, 26 secondsargued Letby was a deliberate killer who thrived on the emergencies she caused,
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2 minutes, 32 secondspointing to evidence that she had searched for the parents of dead and injured babies on Facebook on the anniversaries of their deaths. The
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2 minutes, 41 secondsdefense said she was a committed neonatal nurse being blamed for the wider failings of an underresourced hospital. Jurors were shown months of
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2 minutes, 50 secondsmedical records, staffing rosters, and text messages. The crown’s central claim was simple.
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2 minutes, 57 secondsThe unexplained collapses and deaths on the unit stopped after Letby was taken off the roa. In August 2023,
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3 minutes, 7 secondsshe was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others. The judge imposed a whole life
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3 minutes, 15 secondsorder, meaning she will spend the rest of her life in prison.
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