The lengthy trial of the UK's most notorious child killer featured an enormous amount of detail, with the prosecution using handwritten notes, documents and even a sympathy card penned by Letby as evidence of her sinister presence on the Countess of Chester neonatal unit.
Thousands of pieces of evidence were gathered for the trial against Lucy Letby, detailing her"cruel, calculated and cynical campaign" of murder and attempted murder of babies at the Countess of Chester hospital.
A police search of her home following her first arrest in 2018 uncovered evidence of her"sadistic" crimes, including handwritten notes and hospital documents.found inside a 2016 diary, contained what appeared to look like a confession:"I AM EVIL I DID THIS." On the same note, Letby wrote:"I killed them on purpose because I'm not good enough." Her defence barrister said the note was written by an"anguished woman in despair" at being linked to babies' collapses and deaths.On a separate note featuring similar small writing scrawled across every inch of space on the page, the killer nurse wrote:"I'm sorry that you couldn't have a chance at life," and"help" in capital letters.
Some related to the babies she had been found guilty of hurting or killing. Letby repeatedly said on the witness stand that she simply liked to"collect paper" or had forgotten to remove the documents from her uniform before heading home.The former neonatal nurse said she couldn't destroy the confidential notes - though jurors were told a paper shredder had been found at Letby's home.
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