Feb. 10, 2026
"THE KILLER NURSE: LUCY LETBY, 7 DEAD BABIES & THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY DIVIDING A NATION"
Reid Carter takes a deep dive into the case dominating Netflix right now. Lucy Letby, a British neonatal nurse convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016. Injected air into bloodstreams. Poisoned with insulin. Wrote "I am evil, I did this" on a Post-it note. Sentenced to 15 whole-life orders - she will die in prison. But now international medical experts say there's no evidence she killed anyone. Netflix's new documentary is reigniting the debate. Is Lucy Letby Britain's worst female serial killer - or its greatest miscarriage of justice?
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Caalarogashark Media. Good morning. I'm Red Carter, Tuesday, February tenth,
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twenty twenty six taking a break from the courtrooms today
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to talk about something you've probably already seen in your
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Netflix queue. Maybe you've already watched it. Maybe you're one
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of the sixty million people who've clicked on it in
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the last six days. The Investigation of Lucy Letbee, Netflix's
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number one documentary worldwide right now, ninety minutes about a
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British neonatal nurse convicted of murdering seven babies attempting to
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murder seven more. Sentenced to fifteen whole life orders. That's
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the harshest sentence in the British legal system. She will
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die in prison. But here's why it's number one on
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Netflix and not just another true crime documentary because half
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the people who watch it think she's a monster and
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the other half think she's innocent. Lucy let Be thirty
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six years old former nurse at the Countess of Chester
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Hospital in northern England. Between June twenty fifteen and June
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twenty sixteen. Prosecutors say she went on a killing spree
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in the neonatal unit, injected air into tiny bloodstreams, poisoned
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babies with insulin, overfed them with milk to restrict their breathing,
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manipulated breathing tubes, attacked the most vulnerable patients on the planet,
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premature infants fighting for their lives. Police searched her home
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after her arrest found handwritten notes post it notes. One
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of them read, I am evil. I did this case
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closed right? Monster caught? Lock her up, throw away the
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key except now. An international panel of fourteen medical experts
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says there's no evidence she killed anyone. Says the babies
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died from natural causes or bad metal care at an understaffed,
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failing hospital. Says the prosecution's key evidence was based on
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a misinterpretation of a nineteen eighty nine research paper. Says
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the scientist whose work was cited at trial was never
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asked to testify, and when he finally reviewed the case,
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he said his research was misused. The Criminal Case's Review
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Commission is considering whether this is a miscarriage of justice.
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Letb's defense team has submitted thirty one expert reports from
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twenty six specialists. The Thoroughwall inquiry into what happened at
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the hospital has been delayed until after Easter. Three former
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senior hospital staff were arrested last June on suspicion of
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gross negligence manslaughter, and Netflix dropped a documentary right in
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the middle of all of it, using artificial intelligence to
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digitally disguise the faces of witnesses, showing never before seen
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footage of Letb's arrest at her parents' home. Her parents,
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who had no idea Netflix had the footage, said watching
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it would likely kill us. I'm read Carter today. The
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case of Lucy Letb, the murders, the trial, the conviction,
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the doubt, and whether Netflix just made a true crime
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documentary or accidentally exposed the greatest wrongful conviction in British history.
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This is celebrity trials. Lucy Letbe was born January fourth,
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nineteen ninety in Hereford, England. Only child. Father sold furniture.
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Mother was an account's clerk. Unremarkable childhood, went to church school,
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attended Hereford's sixth form College. Wanted to be a nurse
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from a young age. Why neonatal nursing specifically A childhood
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friend told the BBC that Letby had a difficult birth
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herself nearly didn't survive. Was grateful to the nurses who
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saved her life wanted to do the same for other babies.
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She studied nursing at the University of Chester three years
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of training, did placements at Liverpool Women's Hospital and the
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Countess of Chester Hospital. Graduated in September twenty eleven with
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a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, specializing in child nursing.
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First person in her family to go to university. But
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there were early warning signs. Maybe or maybe they were
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just the struggles of a new nurse learning her profession.
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Depends on who you ask. Her first clinical assessor, Nicola Lightfoot,
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failed her on her final year placement, said let Be
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was lacking in clinical and medication knowledge, needed more experience
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reading nonverbal signs of distress from parents. At the thorough
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Wall Inquiry in twenty twenty four, Lightfoot used a specific
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word to describe let Be cold. Let Be requested a
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new assessor passed her retrieval placement. Graduated January twenty twelve.
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Let Be started working at the Countess of Chester Hospital's
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neonatal unit, cared for premature babies, sick newborns, the most
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fragile patients in medicine. She seemed to it in a
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twenty thirteen staff profile, she said she enjoyed seeing them
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progress and supporting their families. She helped raise funds for
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a new neonatal unit, volunteered for extra shifts. Seemed dedicated,
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but she also told colleagues she found non intensive care
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work boring. Wanted the sickest babies, the most critical cases,
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the ones fighting for survival. July twenty thirteen, let Be
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and a senior nurse set an infant's morphine infusion rate
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at ten times the correct amount. The deputy ward manager
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suspended let Be from administering controlled drugs. Let Be was
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upset complained to the unit manager, who was on leave
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during the incident. The suspension was lifted a week later
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after let Be complained it was an overreaction. April twenty sixteen,
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let Be administered antibiotics to a baby that wasn't prescribed them.
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Classified it as a minor error, was reassigned from night
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shifts to day shifts. The use incidents could mean something,
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or they could be the normal mistakes of a busy
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nurse in an understaffed unit. Nurses make medication errors, it happens.
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Doesn't make them murderers. But here's where the story turns dark.
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June twenty fifteen, the Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit
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typically saw two or three infant deaths per year, normal
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for a unit that size. Tragic, but expected when you're
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caring for the most fragile patients. In June twenty fifteen, alone,
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four babies collapsed, three died. The neonatal death rate more
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than doubled. An independent monitoring project found the death rate
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was at least ten percent higher than expected between June
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twenty fifteen and June twenty sixteen. Something was wrong. Lead neonatologist,
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doctor Stephen brarie noticed a pattern. One nurse was on
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shift for every single collapse, every single death, Lucy let Be,
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but Brariy initially dismissed it. There was only one other
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qualified junior nurse in the unit. Let Be often worked
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extra shifts to cover staffing shortages. Of course, she'd be
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present for most incidents. Statistical coincidence, not evidence of murder.
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Nobody had any concerns about her practice, Brariy said, except
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the deaths kept coming, baby after baby, collapse after collapse,
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and Lucy Letby was always there. The hospital conducted an
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informal review classed the deaths as medication errors. No police involvement,
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no formal investigation, just internal reviews that went nowhere. February
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twenty sixteen, the Care Quality Commission visited, heard about difficulties
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raising concerns with management. Found short staffing and skill mix issues,
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but praised the overall culture. Said staff felt well supported
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and able to raise concerns. Nobody mentioned the elevated death rate.
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May twenty sixteen, the executive team deemed the spike in
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deaths coincidental, no substantial action taken, the baby's kept dying
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and Lucy let Be kept working. June twenty sixteen, let
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Be returned from a holiday in Ibisa, two more babies
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died almost immediately. Doctor Brarie called the duty executive demanded
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let Be be removed from the unit. The duty executive
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insisted she was safe to work. Two more dead babies,
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a doctor begging management to remove a nurse, management saying no,
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make it make sense. Finally, at the end of June
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twenty sixteen, the hospital's executive directors discussed involving police, decided
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against it. Instead, they ordered a review from the Royal
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College of Pediatrics and Child Health. Let Be was removed
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from the unit. On June thirtieth, transferred to an administrative role,
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and just like that, the collapses stopped. The mortality rate
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returned to normal coincidence or confirmation. But here's what happened
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next that should make your blood boil. The Royal College
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reviewed the unit, found insufficient staffing and senior cover, but
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praised Letby's nursing skills. Called the concerns about her a
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subjective view with no other evidence. Recommended further case reviews.
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Let Be filed a formal grievance about being removed from
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clinical duties. The hospital board upheld it, said her removal
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had been orchestrated by the consultants with no hard evidence.
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The chief executive met with Letby and her parents in
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December two thousand sixteen, apologized on behalf of the hospital,
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promised the doctors who raised concerns would be dealt with.
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The doctors who tried to stop the killing were forced
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to write Lucy let Be a letter of apology. February
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two thousand seventeen, the whistleblowers apologized to the suspect, your
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tax dollars at work, well, your n h S contributions
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at work. March two thousand seventeen, four consultants, including Brarie,
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went directly to Cheshire Police. Enough was enough. Management wouldn't act,
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so they went around management. Let Be was due back
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on the unit. May third, Police opened Operation Hummingbird, the
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investigation that would eventually lead to Lucy Letbe's arrest, trial
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and conviction, but it took another year and a half
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before she was even arrested. We'll be right back with
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the evidence that convicted Lucy let Be. The post it notes,
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the Facebook searches, the sympathy cards, and the handwritten confession
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that prosecutors say proves she murdered seven babies. Welcome back
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to celebrity trials. I'm reed Carter. July third, twenty eighteen,
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police arrested Lucy let Be at her parents' home in Hereford,
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suspicion of eight counts of murder and six counts of
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attempted murder. Searching her home, they found something unexpected over
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two hundred and fifty confidential nursing handover sheets documents about
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the babies, any relating specifically to the babies who collapsed
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and died arranged in chronological order. When police asked her
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about them, let Be said she brought them home by
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accident two hundred and fifty documents organized chronologically about specific
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dead babies by accident. Google search history is forever, and
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apparently so are nursing handover sheets when you take them
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home and file them like trophies. But the handover sheets
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were just the beginning. Police found handwritten notes, post it
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notes scrawled in Letby's handwriting. One note read I am
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evil I did this. Another I killed them on purpose
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because I'm not good enough. Prosecution presented these as confessions,
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written admissions of guilt, the killer acknowledging her crimes in
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her own handwriting. But there were other words on those
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same notes. Words the prosecution didn't emphasize slander, discrimination, I
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haven't done anything wrong. I feel very alone. Let Be's
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defense now argues those notes weren't confessions. They were the
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ramblings of a distressed woman who'd been removed from her job,
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accused of terrible things, and told by a therapist to
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write down her feelings, a woman processing the horror of
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being accused, not confessing to it. Her current attorney, Mark
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MacDonald says in the Netflix documentary she was told as
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a form of therapy to write down her feelings. The
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words I am evil, I did this existed alongside words
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that suggest she didn't believe she did anything wrong. Make
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it make sense because both interpretations are plausible, and that
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ambiguity is at the heart of this case. Let Be
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was bailed in July twenty eighteen, re arrested June twenty nineteen,
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bailed again, Finally arrested for the third time November tenth,
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twenty twenty, this time no bail. Charged with eight counts
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of murder and ten counts of attempted murder, later adjusted
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to seven murders and fifteen attempted murders relating to seventeen babies.
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She spent twenty three months in custody before her trial
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began October tenth, twenty twenty two, Manchester Crown Court, before
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Mister Justice Goss Lucy let Be pleaded not guilty to
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all charges. The trial lasted one hundred and forty five days,
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one of the longest murder trials in British history. The
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babies were referred to as Baby A through Baby Q,
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their identities protected by court order no names, just letters
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representing tiny lives. Prosecutors alleged Letby's methods varied. She injected
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air into blood streams, which can cause fatal air embolisms.
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She poisoned babies with insulin, causing dangerous blood sugar drops.
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She overfed infants with milk, inflating their stomachs and restricting breathing.
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She manipulated breathing tubes, each method designed to look like
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a natural complication of premature birth. It was, after all,
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one of her favorite ways of killing, Prosecutor Nick Johnson
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told the jury, referring to air injection, the prosecution's case
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rested on several pillars. First, let Be's presence. She was
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on shift for an extraordinary number of collapses and deaths.
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A chart showed her presence correlated with virtually every suspicious incident.
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When she was removed, the incident stopped. Second, the handwritten
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notes I am evil, I did this. Prosecutors called them confessions. Third,
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her behavior. After Baby A died in June twenty fifteen,
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let Be texted her manager offering to do more shifts.
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Said she needed to take an intensive care baby soon.
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From a confidence point of view, three days after a
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baby died on her watch, she wanted more sick babies.
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After Baby E died, let me send a sympath the
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card to the parents on the day of the funeral.
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Normal maybe, except she photographed the card before sending it
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and kept the photos on her phone. Why photograph a
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sympathy card unless you're collecting souvenirs. She had to be
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told more than once not to enter a room where
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grieving parents were mourning their dead child. Intrusive, obsessive, like
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she wanted to witness the grief she'd caused. She searched
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for the parents of dead babies on Facebook after they died.
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Prosecutors called it intrusive curiosity. After the third baby death
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in two weeks in twenty fifteen, let be text at
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a colleague, I think there is an element of fate involved.
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There is a reason for everything. Fate O reason for everything.
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Prosecutors said that was let be acknowledging she was the reason.
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Fourth the medical evidence. This is where it gets complicated
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and where the entire case may fall apart. The prosecutions
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lead expert witness was Dewey Evans, retired consultant pediatrician not
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currently practicing. He contacted police after reading about the investigation
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and offered to help. Reviewed sixty one cases narrowed them
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to twenty two Evans concluded let Be had injected air
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into baby's blood streams, based partly on skin discoloration he
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observed in medical records modeling purple patches on the skin.
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He cited a nineteen eighty nine research paper by doctor
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Shue Lee from the University of Toronto to support his
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theory that this modeling was diagnostic of deliberate air embolism.
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