“Parents were exposed to her morbid curiosity and her fake compassion,” the lead prosecutor said. “Too many of them returned home to empty baby rooms.
Lucy Letby, a British neonatal nurse, was found guilty of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others during what prosecutors described as a yearlong campaign of deception when she preyed on the vulnerabilities of premature and sick newborns as well as their anxious parents.
Families of the victims said they will “forever be grateful” to jurors who had to sit through 145 days of “grueling” evidence. Letby denied all the charges. She was found guilty of the seven murders and of seven charges of attempted murder relating to six children. She was cleared of one charge of attempted murder and the jury could not reach a verdict on several others.
They alleged that Letby was on duty in all the cases and described her as a “constant malevolent presence” in the neonatal unit when the children collapsed or died. They said the nurse harmed the babies in ways that did not leave much of a trace, and that she persuaded her colleagues that the collapses and deaths were normal.
Prosecutors said a note found at Letby’s home after she was arrested in 2018 where she had written “I am evil, I did this” was “literally a confession.” He also claimed that four senior doctors pinned blame on Letby to cover up failings in the neonatal unit.“I only ever did my best to care for them,” she testified. “I am there to care not to harm.”
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