A LEADING forensic psychologist believes depraved messages scrawled by baby killer Lucy Letby are the closest she’ll ever come to a confession. Dr Sohom Das says the post-it note missives are not t…
“What does leap out at me are the expressions of self-hatred, guilt, shame and self-loathing, along with a low self-confidence – what psychiatrists call ‘negative cognitions’.”
A godmother to two children, cat-loving Letby was a”Mary Poppins” figure to friends in the resolutely middle classDetectives have suggested that the deeply unsettling scrawls discovered at her semi-detachedBut Dr Das doesn’t believe that was Letby’s motivation.The psychiatrist — who acts as an expert witness in court cases — added: “Her true motivations, I believe, are power, control and the thrill of being around the grieving process.
He suggests that’s why the scribblings might be crammed onto small pieces of paper - which represent her “limited” conscience. Investigating officers also say Letby’s diaries, seized at her £180,000 pad during the probe, offeredAnd they reveal she used a “coded system” to chart significant moments in her life.
One of her childhood friends said: “She told me she’d had quite a difficult birth herself and was quite poorly, and I think that’s affected a lot of her life.”
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