Diary notes containing chilling admission has helped convict an English nurse of murdering seven babies Lucy Letby is now officially one of the worst child killers in British history. She was singled-out as a suspect when detectives discovered that the mysterious deaths coincided with when Letby was on duty.
00:00 Lucy Letby was once literally the poster girl for the British Nursing Council.
00:07 The 33-year-old was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others in her care.
00:15 In her hands, innocuous substances like air, milk or medication like insulin would become lethal.
00:24 Families cannot be identified legally but feel compelled to speak after confronting 10 months in court.
00:32 I think she's a hateful human being. She's taken everything from us.
00:37 These parents lost one of their twins in 2015. It was later found he died from an injection of air.
00:45 Then his twin brother started to deteriorate.
00:49 I said to my husband, "Please not again. We can't do this again."
00:53 Letby was found to have used insulin to poison the baby, who's now been left with severe learning difficulties.
01:00 The alarm was first raised in 2016 after an unusually high number of deaths in the unit.
01:07 Roster records showed the same nurse working on those tragic days.
01:13 The other staff were very traumatised by all of this.
01:17 You were crumbling before your eyes almost and she was quite happy and confident to come into work.
01:24 As concerns from senior doctors went ignored, more unnatural deaths emerged, eventually leading to her arrest in 2018.
01:33 Inside her room, police found baby medical records, her diary and notes which read, "I killed them on purpose because I'm not good enough."
01:43 Her parents were in the court when the verdict was read and it said that her mother screamed out, "This can't be true."
01:49 The government will also be conducting an independent investigation into how these deaths happened under everyone's noses, in what should have been a place of care.
