2023-05-02 17:13:00
A nurse on trial for the murder of seven babies in a British hospital has pleaded innocent at the trial. Lucy Letby, 33, said in court on Tuesday that she had never harmed a baby. The nurse has been on trial since October for the murder of seven babies and 15 counts of attempted murder.
The indictment alleges that the 33-year-old killed five boys and two girls between June 2015 and June 2016 in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, northwest England.
The defendant spoke for the first time on Tuesday, seven months after the trial began. When questioned by her lawyer, she confirmed that she had taken care of hundreds of babies during the period in question. When asked if she’d ever harmed a baby, Letby replied, “No, that’s totally against the nature of a nurse.”
The public prosecutor’s office had produced notes written by Letby as evidence, which the police had found on her when they searched her house. Letby had written something like, in capital letters, “I’m mad for doing this.” Another note read, “I don’t deserve to live. I killed her on purpose because I’m not good enough to take care of her. I’m a horrible, evil person.”
When asked about the notes, Letby replied that she wrote the latter “because at the time I felt I had done something wrong”. She considered herself “incompetent” and a terrible person because “I made mistakes and didn’t know it”. “I felt that I was responsible in some way,” added the defendant.
The nurse’s youngest alleged victim, a prematurely born boy, was only one day old. According to the trial, he was “doing well” until June 8, 2015, when Letby began work at the neonatal unit. He was dead 90 minutes later. Medical experts believe the premature baby was intentionally injected with air or something else.
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