The wolf in the sheepfold: behind the angelic nurse, a terrible serial killer in the maternity ward


For a year, a nurse would have sown terror in England. She is accused of killing five babies and trying to poison ten others.

In the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital, dramas unfolded. Barely born, several babies died without the parents understanding why. These infants did not die of natural causes but were killed by a nurse. In the space of two weeks Lucy Letby would have indeed murdered three babies before killing two other children. In all, she allegedly murdered a total of five boys and two girls between June 2015 and June 2016 and attempted to murder at least ten others. “This hospital is a busy general hospital and within the maternity ward there is a neonatal unit which takes care of premature and sick babies, explained the prosecutor to the court. In that sense, the hospital is like many others in the UK, but unlike many other hospitals, within the neonatal unit, a poisoner was at work.”

Sudden increase in unexpected deaths alarmed consultants, prosecutor says. “They noticed that the unexpected deaths had a common denominator – the presence of a neonatal nurse and that nurse was Lucy Letby,” he continued at the trial of the young woman. During their investigations, the police discovered that she had poisoned the babies with insulin. “There is a very small number of people who could have been the poisoner, because access to a neonatal unit is very restrictedhe continued. These weren’t accidents and, if we’re right, it will help you assess the meltdowns and deaths of other children because someone was sabotaging them or if they were just tragic coincidences.”

The trial will last for months

According to him, Lucy Letby had shown a “unusual interest” for the families of the children she allegedly attacked. The judge of this trial, Mr. Goss, earlier asked the jury of eight men and four women to put their emotions “next to” during the hearing of evidence likely to cause “the horror”. Lucy Letby denies all 22 murder and attempted murder charges against her. In fact, the 32-year-old nurse is accused of poisoning two babies with insulin and sabotaging the treatment of other infants during a year. Described as a “constant malevolent presence” in the neonatal unit, she also allegedly tried several times to kill some of the babies there. The trial, scheduled to last six months, is continuing.

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Barely born, several babies died without the parents understanding why. These infants did not die of natural causes but were killed by a nurse

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In the space of two weeks Lucy Letby would have indeed murdered three babies before killing two other children

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In all, she allegedly murdered a total of five boys and two girls between June 2015 and June 2016 and attempted to murder at least ten others.

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Lucy Letby denies all 22 murder and attempted murder charges against her

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The trial, scheduled to last six months, continues



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