This is the horrifying moment killer nurse Lucy Letby attempts to trick officers into believing she was worried about the rise of babies who died under her care.
Lucy Letby, 33, “played God” as she stalked the words of the neo-natal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital, callously injecting air and fluids including insulin and milk into babies in her care between June 2015 and June 2016.
The convictions make Letby the worst child serial killer in modern British history.
Cheshire Police released footage of her interview amid fears she may have killed more babies as a nurse.
Full timeline of Letby’s murder spree
In the interview when she was first arrested in 2018, she told investigators: “They told me there had been a lot more deaths and I’d been linked as someone who had been there for a lot of them.”
When asked if the rise in death rates led to any concerns, she replied: “Yes”.
The nurse continued: “I think we’d all just noticed as a team in general, the nursing staff, that this was a rise compared to previous years.”
Letby, described by officers as “beige”, has been convicted of seven counts of murder and seven counts of attempted murder following 22 days of jury deliberation.
The finger of suspicion eventually pointed at Letby after a spike in the hospital’s child mortality rate, and investigations by consultants revealed she had been on duty and with access to the babies repeatedly when babies suddenly began to collapse.
Some babies survived an attack by Letby but were then targeted again in a determined attempt to end their lives, Manchester crown court heard during her nine-month trial.
In other footage released by Cheshire Police showed the moment officers investigating the significant rise in the numbers of babies who suffered serious collapse arrested Letby at her semi-detached home in Westbourne Road, Chester, at 6am on July 3 2018.
The video shows Letby being escorted out the door with her hands handcuffed behind her back before then put in the back of an unmarked police car.
Police then searched her three-bedroom home just over a mile from the hospital. The court heard searches uncovered a number of closely written notes.
On one green Post-it note she wrote: “I don’t deserve to live. I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough to care for them”, “I am a horrible evil person” and in capital letters “I am evil I did this”.
She will be sentenced by Mr Justice Goss, and almost certainly faces the prospect of the rest of her life in prison.
