Prosecutors claim that Lucy Letby experienced a thrill from witnessing parents’ pain and despair after learning that their infants had passed away. Following a number of newborn infant deaths at the neonatal ward of the Countess of Chester Hospital in northwest England in 2015 and 2016, this serial killer was placed under arrest.
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She was charged with sabotaging the treatment of the infants in various ways, including by overloading them with insulin, disconnecting their breathing device, introducing air into their bloodstreams, and other offences. She was “out of control” and “with a God Complex” and was almost playing with the people she was treating, according to the prosecution
During the 10-month trial of the newborn killer nurse Lucy Letby, the jurors at Manchester Crown Court struggled to contain their tears as the prosecutors presented them with a variety of potential motives.
Jurors were told by the prosecution’s Nick Johnson KC (King’s Counsel) that Letby had a “God Complex” and through torturing the infants, she believed that she was in control. He also emphasised the fact that she was the first to alert authorities when the newborns passed away.
Killing Spree Of The British Nurse
The Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal nurse, Lucy Letby was found guilty of murdering seven infants and trying to kill six more.
Between June 2015 and June 2016, she allegedly preyed on 17 babies, Manchester Crown Court was informed.
The jury, consisting of seven women and four men, reached their verdict after hearing nine months’ worth of frequently gruesome testimony and more than 110 hours of deliberation.
She has been charged with 22 offences totaling 10 baby murders and 15 baby attempted murders. A twin boy who was born and passed away in early June 2015 was Letby’s first victim.
This British Serial Killer’s last victims were two triplet boys who were known in court as babies O and P.
After visiting Ibiza, nurse Lucy Letby contacted a coworker to let them know she was “back in with a bang” when she returned.
After receiving that message, two triplet siblings, O and P, passed away within 72 hours.
The ward was busy in June 2016 because the triplets had just been delivered, and it was Letby’s first shift following her vacation. She sent a text to a coworker asking how the newcomers were doing and spoke about her return to work.
The horrific week marked the conclusion of the nurse’s murderous rampage when she was employed in the neonatal section at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Motives To Kill For Lucy Letby
Letby testified to the jury that although she was a band 5 nurse and qualified to care for critically ill newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit, she did not find her work fascinating when she was assigned to care for infants who did not require extensive medical attention.
The children’s deaths also gave nurse Lucy Letby an adrenaline rush, a sort of a thrill, a kick. The prosecution said that she stood next to the parents and continued to “smile” while repeating how she had been present for the child’s first bath and had cherished that moment. Child I (as she was referred to by the court) died as a result of continuous crimes by Letby.
According to the newspaper, the authorities claimed that Johnson was “getting a rush” from what was happening in the room and from witnessing the parents’ anguish.
The prosecution said that she frequently searched Facebook for the relatives of her victims. On the children’s death anniversaries, she would search the names of her victims once more.
