They heard about lucy letby s life and what she was like as a nurse and crucially medical evidence that pointed towards lucy letby as a Serial Killer ofjudgment, one of the most, in fact, the most prolific killer of Serial Killer of children. Our north of england correspondent Judith Moritz followed the case from the start and sent this report. She thought shed get away with it, but this was the moment the game was up. Lucy, is it . My name is. With the cheshire police. Do you mind if i step in for two seconds . Yes. Thank you. Behind the door of this ordinary suburban house, britains most prolific baby killer was finally arrested three years after her murder spree began. Just take a seat there for me, lucy. Ill move that seat forward a bit. Ive just had knee surgery. 0h, right, 0k. She worked here, on the Neonatal Unit at the countess of chester hospital. Her role to care for the most premature and vulnerable infants, but that couldnt have been further from her mind. The crying, ive n
So those doctors sat with you. They poured out their worries. Did they talk about lucy letby . No, no. They talked actually at the time they didnt name anybody. What they talked about was in what they told when they contacted the chief constable, the fact that a nurse had been moved. They didnt actually name the nurse to me because i was at that meeting. I didnt have a lot of time because i had to make a decision on whether we were commencing an investigation or not. So i was focused on actually what does this mean medically . They told me that somebody had been moved and all the events had stopped. But i wasnt really drawn into that that much at that time. My first thoughts were as an sio, that if i had been doing something and Somebody Else had been moved, then i would stop as well. So, you know, i didnt get drawn into much about what that meant. I was more focused at that point on what has actually happened. So thats what our line of investigation was going to focus on initially. So
of unexplained and unexpected. and it was them two words that the doctors had been trained to work out. that s what they ve been trying to ascertain about why they couldn t they couldn t fathom the numbers. so the numbers were not actually that important because we ve seen it around the country. you can have births of six babies and triplets and suddenly have a spike, sadly, that they don t survive. so it wasn t necessarily the numbers, but it was the fact that they always expect when a baby s going to collapse and or sadly die. but if the very, very rare time happens where it happens unexpected, they are able to explain it through examinations and postmortems. and on these series of events that had been taking place, they were unable to do so. hence why, despite investigations with other bodies, they were able then to come to the police and say, do you think we ve got to the bottom of this or do you think there is more to it?
and what they explained to me was the two words of unexplained and unexpected. and it was them two words that the doctors had been trained to work out. that s what they ve been trying to ascertain about why they couldn t they couldn t fathom the numbers. so the numbers were not actually that important because we ve seen it around the country. you can have births of six babies and triplets and suddenly have a spike, sadly, that they don t survive. so it wasn t necessarily the numbers, but it was the fact that they always expect when a baby s going to collapse and or sadly die. but if the very, very rare time happens where it happens unexpected, they are able to explain it through examinations and postmortems. and on these series of events that had been taking place, they were unable to do so. hence why, despite investigations with other bodies, they were able then to come to the police and say, do you think we ve got to the bottom of this or do you think there is more to it?