The mum said Letby once sent her a handmade Mother's Day card with a photo she had taken of him in an incubator. This concerned them as he needed 24-hour oxygen
The parents of a premature baby who was under the care of Lucy Letby have said she sent them a chilling photo of him. They now fear that Britain's worst child killer may have harmed their baby while he was at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Cheshire.
The boy's father told the Daily Mail : "We had a handmade card and we assumed everyone on the ward got one. But they didn't, it was just us. Inside was a picture of my son with no breathing equipment. She said she took it out to clean or to sterilise it. Now everything's come to light, I should have questioned it more."
The boy's mum, a 32-year-old student nurse, told the Mail she had conceived twins but lost one of the babies at eight weeks and began suffering from pre-eclampsia four weeks later. Her surviving son was delivered by emergency C-section nine weeks at the Countess of Chester Hospital in February 2016 and weighed just 3lbs 2oz.
The mum added: "She was there day and night, we'd have long conversations with her, especially at night when it was quiet. She'd talk about her house, she talked about her parents a lot, she really thought the world of them, her cats, going out with other nurses socialising… I came to think of her as a friend."
After five weeks in hospital the couple's boy was discharged and Letby requested his mum as a friend on Facebook. The couple considered making Letby their son's godmother after he became ill and she showed concern, but in the end they asked a relative. Neither had suspected Letby of doing any wrongdoing until her face flashed up on the news at the time of her arrest in July 2018.
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