Nurse Lucy Letby found guilty of murdering seven babies

''Not sure what news articles you’re reading, but lots that I’ve read covered the medical evidence, Letyby’s handwritten notes (that included phrases such as “I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough to care for them” and “I am evil I did this”),''

This looks damming, but if a person is blamed by senior staff, or hinted at for being at fault, then a depressed person would write such stuff when they too begin to blame themselves. ''"Overwhelming fear I panic I'll never have children or marry, I'll never have a family' and 'I don't deserve to live' and 'Why me?' 'I haven't done anything wrong and they have no evidence, so why have I had to hide away?' I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough to care for them????? I am evil I did this! , Kill me!!'' Depress people do this, when the enormity of what's being said about her sinks in, then in moments of despair, a person can write such things to themselves .

I find it very hard to read too much about this. Just sickening. Ideally people would be screened out of jobs like this, but in reality that not always possible.

is there at least any way to collate the spike in deaths and incidents around particular nurses/doctors?

it’s probably even harder to report this when it’s a societal sacred cow like a hospital consultant doing the deeds. Like with dr neary and dr shine in our own Drogheda hospital - albeit they never actually killed anyone.

The simple fact is, this is a very rare murder conviction, based on overwhelmig circumstantial evidence alone, and one of the longest such trials. Is it a safe conviction, considering there is so much doubt, and no hard evidence.

Stats would have raised questions. You don't need medical knowledge which they also got from nurses and doctors.

hopefully, but.....

Agreed. Why was her father at the meeting? That's unusual I would have thought?

Thankfully this is a 1 in a billion x trillion incident. Such outcomes will be very very unlikely to happen again.

The unfortunate 7 babies got no help, their families got no help. This scumbag deserves no help.

...the sad truth is, similar issues have actually happened in other health systems around the world, so.....

yea its a difficult one, cause theres some incredible people doing incredible things, including working in our health systems, with such disorders, but maybe we should be introducing widescale regular psychological check ups in our health workers, even the act may just help reduce the stress induced into our health care workers....its a difficult one...

Its about the court case

Probably be blaming themselves for the rest of their lives... Why didn't we know, why didn't we stop her?!

So wrong that management of the trust did not act when concerns were raised..

Life sentence not just for her, but all of them and the poor parents.

The first thrill was playing God with human lives. “I can decide wether this baby lives or dies. I can cause this baby horrible suffering. I can destroy this babies parents, bring them horrific grief and trauma. Me. Little Lucy Letbie.

And I’m so sweet and nice and quiet and innocent that no one will ever know”.

Then there was all the high octane drama of a hospital emergency. The lights flashing and the shrieking alarms. The parents howling in pain. The other staff in uproar. Lucy in the middle of it all keeping her almost orgasmic euphoria tightly under wraps.

It’s also mentioned that she would be looking to bring the doctor she had the hots for running to the unit.

Sneaking home with the momentos she stole. Alone in her bedroom looking at them and reliving the high all over again.

I hope someone can persuade her to tell the truth about what she was thinking or how she was feeling. It would help the grieving families to know.