Lucy Letby's post-it note provides only explanation for murders, says expert
A haunting post-it note left by serial baby killer Lucy Letby in which she says she “killed them on purpose” provides the only explanation to her evil killing spree, an expert has claimed.
There has been about what motivated Britain's worst baby-killer, after Letby was of the murder of seven babies and of six others in the neonatal unit of Countess of Chester Hospital. Police found nothing in her background which may have triggered the spree. But there were suggestions she revelled in the attention, with some testifying that Letby seemed to of emergencies. One leading criminologist suggested it could be a result of mental disorder Munchausen’s syndrome.
With no obvious motive, Detective Superintendent Paul Hughes, who into Letby, said her ‘confession’ note is the only real explanation for her horrendous crimes. He said: “She clearly loves the attention, I think she loved the attention of a trial as well. But if we are looking for why she’s done this, then to re-use her own words, ‘she is evil and she did this’,” he said. The post-it note this was found on had the heading “NOT GOOD ENOUGH”, and was found among a trove of other incriminating evidence.
In the most explicit note she writes "I am evil. I did this." (PA)Other messages on Letby’s post-it notes read: “I AM EVIL, I DID THIS. There are no words. I am an awful person – I pay every day for that. I can’t breathe. I can’t focus. Kill myself right now. Overwhelming fear/panic. I’ll never have children or marry. I’ll never know what it’s like to have a family. NO HOPE.”
The post-it notes also displayed confusion about her responsibility for the murders. She scribbled: “I haven’t done anything wrong. Police investigation forget slander. Discrimination. Victimisation. All getting too much everything taking over my life. Hate myself so much for what this has . . . I feel very alone and scared.
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“What does the future hold. How can I get through it. How will things ever be like they used. HATE. PANIC. FEAR. LOST. I don’t deserve to live. I DID THIS. WHY ME. I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough for them and I am a horrible evil person. I don’t deserve Mum and Dad. World is better off without me.”
Much of Letby's notes made little sense (PA)In the trial, Letby denied the note was any form of confession, and wrote it when being moved off the unit in July 2016 because she couldn’t deal with being blamed for something she hadn’t done. The prosecution responded that the notes should be “read literally”.
DS Hughes told the he believes the notes suggest Letby wanted notoriety, therefore providing some explanation behind her motive. He questions why she did not shred the papers and other incriminating evidence when she knew the police were investigating in May 2017.
He said: “In my view, she wrote it down and left it for us to find. She knew the police were investigating. She knew her colleagues had been spoken to by the police. She knew at some point we would be speaking to her, so either recklessly or intentionally she wrote it down to be found.”
DS Hughes stresses that Letby’s intelligence should not be underestimated. He said: “Did she want it [the note] found? Did she just want to write it down or did she just want to tell the world that she was evil, and she did this? Did she want the notoriety that she’s got? Without telling us why, then the motive was right in front of us for us to find.”
DS Hughes does not believe Letby went into nursing with the intention of murdering babies, but says nursing “gave her the opportunity to be around the most vulnerable in society”, and that once she “saw the attention she received, that lit something inside of her that she continued with”.
Despite the compelling theory from DS Hughes, the exact motive may never be known. At her sentencing on Monday 21 August, Letby is widely expected to be ordered to spend her life behind bars.
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