Inside Lucy Letby's £200k beige home with childlike bedroom that held clues to baby murders
25.08.2023 - 17:39
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
Baby killer Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life in jail after being sentenced to a whole life order for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six more. The evil nurse will never return to the three-bedroom house where she lived during her heinous crimes.
The semi-detached home is located on Westbourne Road in Chester, just a few minutes in the car from the Countess of Chester Hospital, where she took the lives of the innocent babies. Letby, 33, bought the property for £179,000 in April 2016, after leaving nurse accommodation at her workplace, The Mirror reports.
Over two years after she bought the three-bed home, she was arrested there. At 6am on July 3, 2018, Letby was nicked by police officers on suspicion of attacking children in her care. She was then suspended from her role on the neonatal ward.
During her 10-month trial at Manchester Crown Court, the jury was shown photographs of her bedroom that had been taken by a crime scene officer in the aftermath of her arrest. The former nurse was reduced to tears as snaps of her untidy room were shown on the big screen, where two teddy bears could be seen on her unmade bed, alongside a pink dressing gown and fairy lights, which hung over her bedside.
Her duvet cover bore the words 'sweet dreams' and a framed print on the wall read 'Leave Sparkles Wherever You Go', while another had a lyric from Rihanna's hit Diamonds. On the floor was a red suitcase and two handbags; a large, burgundy one and a small, black one.
The modern-looking home boasted a garage, driveway, and front garden. The kitchen had French doors which led out to a small back garden, which backed onto the Blacon Crematorium, which has a memorial garden for babies.
Her grey-and-white kitchen