‘Lucy Letby is a psychopath - she’s pretended to be human all her life’
29.08.2023 - 06:17
/ ok.co.uk
Her actions shocked the nation to its core. How could a trusted and seemingly dedicated nurse kill seven babies and attempt to murder six more in a hospital’s neonatal unit? But as we try to understand the depths of Lucy Letby’s depravity, the questions remain about her motive and how an apparently “ordinary” young woman turned into a cold, calculating killer.
One man who has more insight than most is criminal psychologist Dr David Holmes who says Letby is “an actress, who has been pretending to be a human being and has done this most of her life”. She was not, however, born to kill babies.
“I believe she was born with the brain configuration of a psychopath,” says Dr Holmes. “Someone born with this learns to deal with it in many ways.
There are many out there – some are CEOs of large companies – and sometimes their lack of empathy for others shows through.
“Those who come to our attention are serial killers – and I do mean serial killers. Not just killers, because people can kill for various reasons, but someone who goes on to kill again and again is someone with a lack of feeling for others, a level of insensitivity.” Last week at Manchester Crown Court, Letby was handed a whole-life order for every charge she faced, meaning she will die behind bars.
The 33-year-old nurse targeted babies between June 2015 and June 2016 at the Countess of Chester Hospital, force-feeding infants milk, poisoning them with insulin or injecting them with air.
Dr Holmes says it’s likely Letby went through life “manipulating people by playing a very nice person”, finding purpose and power in her controlling nature within her nursing role. “Often psychopaths gravitate to one uniform or another and many do go into the medical profession,” he
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