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13.10.2022 - 15:05 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A nurse accused of murdering seven babies and trying to kill 10 more wrote 'I am evil I did this' on a piece of paper later found in a police search of her house, a court has heard.
Lucy Letby, who worked in the neonatal unit of Chester Hospital in England, also 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', Manchester Crown Court was told. The notes were among other papers and Post-it notes which also contained "many protestations of innocence", Nick Johnson KC, prosecuting, told the jury.
Letby, 32, denies attacking newborn children in a variety of ways, including poisoning, during an alleged killing spree on the neonatal unit at Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016. Concluding the prosecution opening, which began on Monday, Mr Johnson said that after Letby fell under suspicion, she was put on clerical duties where she could not pose a danger to children until she was arrested in July 2018.
After her house in Chester was searched, "interesting items" were found, Mr Johnson said. Paperwork relating to many of the children who died or suffered collapses was found along with Post-it notes with closely written words which included the names of some of her colleagues, the court heard.
"But I want to show you one note in particular," Mr Johnson told jurors. Highlighting a yellow Post-it note shown on TV screens to the jury, he focused on some of the words written in ink by Letby.
Mr Johnson said: "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.'
Mr Johnson added: "Well, ladies and
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This is the chilling note found inside the home of a nurse accused of killing seven babies.
A neonatal nurse in the U.K. who allegedly murdered seven babies and attempted to kill 10 more wrote notes reading, "I am evil" and "I killed them on purpose because I'm not good enough," according to the prosecution. Lucy Letby, 32, who worked in the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital, left handwritten notes in her home that police found when they searched it in 2018, prosecutor Nick Johnson told the Manchester Crown Court jury, according to the BBC.
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