19 August 2023 , 12:18
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Baby-killer Lucy Letby kept a sickening ‘treasure trove’ of souvenirs related to her victims hidden at home, it has been revealed.
Many of the items were found when the police first arrested Letby at her house in Chester on July 3 2018 - leading to her conviction for the murder of seven babies in the neonatal unit of her hospital. The souvenirs included resuscitation notes, nursing handover sheets, and a blood test result relating to the babies who died at Letby’s hands.
An image of a thankyou card from the parents of one of the victims was found on Letby’s phone. They had twins - one of whom was murdered by Letby and the other who survived a murder attempt by Letby, who poisoned them with insulin. The parents, of course, were entirely unsuspecting of the nursing team, sending them a food hamper along with the card.
A photo of a condolence card which Letby sent to the parents of one of her victims - who she murdered in October 2015 - was also found on her phone. Twenty-one handover sheets Letby had stashed related to 13 of the children Letby had killed or hurt. Handover sheets include confidential details of a baby’s conditions and are provided to nurses at the beginning of a new shift.
"Sorry I couldn't be there to say goodbye", Letby says in the condolence card (PA)
Letby sent the card to the grieving parents of one of her victims (PA)Another 99 of them were related to babies she had previously treated, right back to her first ever handover sheet on June 1 2010, on student placement at the Countess of Chester Hospital - where the murders took place. Chillingly, many of these handover sheets were kept in “pristine” condition in a box decorated with roses, reported the Daily Mail.
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Resuscitation notes were found in a ‘bag for life’ under her bed. They were handwritten, including one on a paper towel regarding Baby M, a twin who Letby attempted to murder by injecting with air. Thankfully Baby M survived the attack after over half an hour of CPR - in what was understood as an incredible recovery.
Prosecutor Nick Johnson KC disputed Letby’s claims that the handover sheets and documents meant nothing to her - and that she had them purely because she “collected paper”. Mr Johnson questioned why she had taken the sheets with her when moving home, even suggesting she used them as “crib” sheets - so she could look up the victim’s families on social media in the years following their death.
Letby was found to have regularly searched for the families of victims. She looked up the mother of Baby E nine times and the father once - searching for their names on Christmas Day. Letby admitted the searches, which totalled up to 2,380 in a single 12-month period. Letby claimed it was “out of curiosity”, denying she got a kick out of it.\