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
judith has been following this case throat notjust judith has been following this case throat not just for the judith has been following this case throat notjust for the criminal trial at manchester crown court that has lasted ten months but following the story you heard, lucy letby was first arrested back in 2016, judith has also spoken to the parents. the parents of two of the children targeted by lucy letby have spoken to the bbc about their experience. she will be sentenced on monday, the justice will deliver his sentencing remarks and hand down a sentence and near the victim impact statements delivered either by or on behalf of the families of all the children affected in this case and judith has been speaking to the parent of those
hear what the contents of the hospital where it lucy letby carried out her crimes would have to say. there s been a lot of turnover of staff since she was employed, the period of the child was from june 2015 to june period of the child was from june 2015 tojune 2016. so people who work there at the time it left the unit, who were senior at the time. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes is outside the countess of chester hospital. he has more reaction on what the hospital s current administration had to say about today s verdict. the current medical director, dr nigel scorn. he came out and made a statement. he didn t take any questions, but he did say that the hospital board were extremely sorry for what had happened. he said there has been a profound impact on the community, on staff and on patients. he said that staff were devastated by what had happened. he said lessons continued to be learned.
loss is accepted and understood, because that is important. it s a human story. the point of the justice system, this one like the one we dealt with ten years ago, it s important to ensure the show that the children did not die of natural causes. what lucy letby did was weapon eyes air, insulin, milk, things that would give life, she weapon eyes them for death. as why there was thousands of pages of medical and expert evidence that the judiciary had to listen to and they had to listen to 145 days of evidence. very complex case with the right outcome but essential for the families that this is what happened. they were clearly diligent and
he was grateful for the staff cooperating with both the inquiry and the trial for giving evidence at the trial. he thanked the police for the care that they had shown to the investigation and also for the support they gave to the families involved. and he thanked them, also, for the support to those families. and he said, since lucy letby worked here, he said, we have made significant changes and we want to reassure everyone who accesses care and treatment here that those changes have been made. and he finally said that their thoughts were with families and loved ones at this time. so that was from dr nigel scorn at the medical director at the countess of chester hospital. we ve also heard from the former medical director who was here at the time when lucy letby was here and committed those absolutely dreadful murders and attempted murders of which he s and attempted murders of which she s now been found guilty. and we ve heard also from the former chief executive at the trust,