Nurse accused of murdering seven babies 'wrote "I killed them" on Post-it note'
A nurse who is accused of murdering seven babies claimed she wrote "I killed them on purpose" because "everything got on top of me", a court heard today.
Lucy Letby, 33, is alleged to have murdered seven babies and attempted to murder 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital's neo-natal unit between June 2015 and June 2016.
Jurors at Manchester Crown Court heard how she wrote on a Post-it note: "I don't deserve to live. I killed them on purpose because I am not good enough to care for them."
The note also added "I am a horrible evil person" and in capital letters "I am evil I did this".
Jurors today read more excerpts from police interviews with the defendant following her arrest.
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During the interview after Letby's arrest in 2018, she was asked about the Post-it note that was found in a diary in her home.
She told police: "I just wrote it because everything had got on top of me.
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The crimes are alleged to have happened between June 2015 and June 2016 (Facebook)"It was when I'd not long found out I'd been removed from the unit and they were telling me my practice might be wrong, that I needed to read all my competencies - my practice might not have been good enough.
"So I felt like people were blaming my practice, that I might have hurt them without knowing through my practice, and that made me feel guilty and I just felt really isolated.
"I was blaming myself but not because I'd done something, (but) because of the way people were making me feel.
"But like I'd only ever done my best for those babies and then people were trying to say that my practice wasn't good, that I'd done something.
"I just couldn't cope and I just did not want to be here anymore.
"I just felt it was, it was all just spiralling out of control, I just didn't know how to feel about it or what was going to happen or what to do."
This is corridor within the Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit (PA)The detective asked: "What people were they?"
Letby replied: "The Trust and the staff on the unit."
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The detective said: "Did you ever make any mistakes?"
"No," replied Letby.
It is alleged the neo-natal unit nurse murdered seven babies and attempted to murder 10 more between June 2015 and June 2016.
Between June 8 and June 22 2015, she allegedly attacked four infants by injecting them with air, killing three of them.
Letby, originally from Hereford, denies all the offences.
The trial continues.
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