‘They told me there had been a lot more deaths… and I was there for a lot of them’: Chilling moment Lucy Letby maintains her innocence in first police interview – as video captures moment serial killer nurse was finally arrested after murder spree
This is the chilling moment serial killer nurse Lucy Letby was quizzed about the spate of deaths on her watch during her first police interview – as footage also emerged of her arrest.
The 33-year-old, who was today found guilty of seven murders, is seen being interviewed by officers at a police station about the rise in mortality at the Countess of Chester Hospital, where she worked.
She says: ‘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.’
Asked if she had any concerns about the rise in mortality, the nurse says ‘yes’.
She then adds: ‘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 is interviewed by police in July 2018, when she admitted she had been confronted about the increased number of baby deaths on her watch
Letby – wearing a blue hoodie with the strings covered in pink glitter – is taken from her house in handcuffs after being arrested by Cheshire Police
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Following her conviction today, police also released footage of the moment Letby was finally arrested following her killing spree.
The video shows Letby – wearing a blue hoodie decorated with pink glitter – answering the door to officers and replying ‘yes’ when asked to confirm her name, before calmly letting them inside.
She is later seen being taken in handcuffs to a waiting car, where she warns officers to be careful because she had recently had knee surgery.
The NHS neonatal nurse preyed on babies small enough to fit in the palm of her hand by injecting air into their bloodstreams or feeding tubes, causing them to collapse and die.
She attacked two sets of twins and murdered two boys out of a set of identical triplets within 24 hours of each other, with the third only surviving because his parents begged another hospital to take him away.
Letby cried in the dock as the guilty verdicts were returned. Her mother broke into a series of anguished sobs which continued even after she had left the court.
At one point she cried out: ‘You can’t be serious. This cannot be right’.
After each murder, Letby appeared ‘animated and excited’, offering to bathe, dress and take photographs of her victims’ bodies.
Letby steps into the police car – telling officers to be careful because she had just had knee surgery
The moment Letby first opens her door to police and replies ‘yes’ when asked to confirm her name
Detective Sergeant who interviewed Lucy Letby reveals the killer was ‘cool and devoid of emotion’
Lucy Letby was ‘cool’ and devoid of ’emotion’ when talking about the murder of babies in her care, the police officer who interviewed her told the Mail today.
Detective Sergeant Danielle Stonier said questioning Britain’s most prolific child killer was ‘surreal’ and ‘intense’ at times.
And she said that she believed the calculating neo-natal nurse only spoke to police because she wanted to know what evidence they had against her, so she could try to outsmart them.
‘The Lucy Letby you saw in court was the Lucy Letby I interviewed,’ Mrs Stonier said. ‘Her tone, her approach to answering questions, even the pauses, were very much the same.
‘Some of the evidence and statements we were putting to her were really, really, graphic in detail, the allegations were horrific.
‘Some people would be flipping the tables, throwing the chairs, banging the doors down, saying, ”look you need to go and speak to such and such. I shouldn’t be here, this is completely wrong,” (but) Lucy Letby was calm, she was quite cool, she answered the questions, she was confident with the answers. She talked but there was no emotion.’
Although her motive remains unclear, the prosecution suggested she got a ‘thrill’ out of ‘playing God’. Inside her messy, childlike home, police found a Post-it note on which she had scrawled: ‘I am evil, I did this.’
In one case, a senior nurse on duty had to repeatedly tell Letby to come out of a room where a grieving couple were spending their last moments with their infant son.
The father said Letby came in with a ventilated basket and told them: ‘You’ve said your goodbyes. Do you want me to put him in here?’ This prompted his wife to tell her: ‘He’s not dead yet.’
The nurse, a seemingly ‘goofy’, ‘innocent’ young woman who had Disney cuddly toys on her bed, was also convicted of trying to murder ten newborns between June 2015 and June 2016 by poisoning them with insulin, overfeeding them milk, tampering with their breathing tubes or assaulting them. Four were left with life-long brain damage.
The killer found different ways to inflict indescribable, inhuman levels of pain, with some of her victims breaking into tortured screams that experienced paediatricians had never heard before. Several had to take time off work to recover from the trauma.
She got away with her killing spree despite consultants repeatedly trying to blow the whistle to managers about the spate of deaths on her watch.
Dr Ravi Jayaram, a TV medic who appears on This Morning, said he was ‘fobbed off’ by nurses after his email warning about Letby prompted the response: ‘It’s unlikely that anything is going on, we’ll see what happens’.
Families of the babies killed and harmed have demanded a public inquiry into how Letby was able to murder and maim babies for so long.
None of the parents had any idea their children had been the victims of foul play until they were visited by police up to three years later.
Police are now reviewing the care of all babies that were admitted to the neonatal units of the Countess of Chester Hospital and Liverpool Women’s Hospital – where Letby also completed two periods of training in 2012 and 2015. They will then examine whether they need to look into any cases in more detail.
Letby in a custody photo released today by Cheshire Police
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