This is the chilling moment when serial killer nurse Lucy Letby was questioned about the spate of deaths on her watch during her first police interview – when footage of her arrest also surfaced.
The 33-year-old, who was found guilty of seven murders today, is being interviewed by officers at a police station about the rise in deaths at Countess of Chester Hospital, where she worked.
She says, “They told me there had been a lot more deaths and that I was linked to someone who had been there for a lot of them.”
When asked if she is concerned about the increase in mortality, the nurse says ‘yes’.
She then adds: ‘I think as a team in general, the nursing staff, we all just noticed that this was an increase compared to previous years.’
Letby is interviewed by police in July 2018, when she admitted that she had been confronted with the increased number of infant deaths during her watch
Letby – wearing a blue hoodie with the strings covered in pink glitter – is taken from her home in handcuffs after being arrested by Cheshire Police
Following her sentencing today, police also released footage of the moment Letby was finally arrested following her murder spree.
In the video, Letby – dressed in a blue hoodie decorated with pink glitter – can be seen answering the door for officers, answering ‘yes’ when asked to confirm her name, before calmly letting them in.
She is later handcuffed and taken to a waiting car, where she warns officers to be careful as she recently had knee surgery.
The NHS neonatal nurse preyed on babies small enough to fit in the palm of her hand by injecting air into their bloodstreams or feeding tubes, causing them to collapse and die.
She attacked two sets of twins and killed two boys of identical triplets within 24 hours of each other, with the third surviving alone because his parents begged another hospital to take him.
Letby wept in the dock as the guilty verdicts were returned. Her mother burst into a series of anguished sobs that continued even after she left court.
At one point she exclaimed, “You can’t be serious. This can’t be right.”
After each murder, Letby seemed “animated and excited,” offering to bathe, dress, and take pictures of her victims’ bodies.
Letby gets into the squad car and tells officers to be careful as she just had knee surgery
The moment Letby opens her door to the police for the first time and replies ‘yes’ when asked to confirm her name
While her motive remains unclear, the prosecution suggested she got a “thrill” from “playing God.” In her cluttered, childish home, police found a Post-it note on which she had scrawled, “I’m bad, I did this.”
In one case, a head nurse on duty had to repeatedly tell Letby to get out of a room where a grieving couple was spending their last moments with their infant son.
The father said Letby came in with a ventilated basket and told them, ‘You said goodbye. Do you want me to put it here?’ This prompted his wife to say to her, “He’s not dead yet.”
The nurse, an apparently “crazy,” “innocent” young woman who kept Disney stuffed animals on her bed, was also convicted of murdering 10 newborns between June 2015 and June 2016 by poisoning them with insulin, giving them too much milk tamper with their breathing tubes or attack them. Four were left with lifelong brain damage.
The killer found a variety of ways to inflict indescribable, inhumane levels of pain, with some of her victims breaking out in anguished screams experienced pediatricians had never heard before. Several had to take time off work to recover from the trauma.
She got away with her killing spree, despite advisers repeatedly trying to whistle managers about the spate of deaths on her watch.
Dr. Ravi Jayaram, a TV medic who appears on This Morning, said he was ‘fobbed off’ by nurses after his email warning about Letby prompted the response: ‘It’s unlikely anything is going on, we’ll see what happens. happens’.
Families of the murdered and injured babies have demanded a public inquiry into how Letby was able to kill and mutilate babies for so long.
None of the parents had any idea that their children were victims of foul play until they were visited by the police until three years later.
Police are now reviewing the care of all babies admitted to the neonatal wards at Countess of Chester Hospital and Liverpool Women’s Hospital – where Letby also completed two periods of training in 2012 and 2015. possible cases in more detail.
Letby in a custody photo released today by Cheshire Police