What led the serial killer nurse to commit her crimes may never be fully known, but jurors were told of several possibilities
babies at the hospital where she worked may never be fully explained. But jurors were given a number of possible motives by the prosecution during the nurse’s 10-month trial at Manchester crown court.The prosecutor Nick Johnson KC suggested Letby, a neonatal nurse, enjoyed “playing God” by harming babies and then being the first to alert her colleagues to their decline.
Johnson told jurors: “She knew what was going to happen. She was controlling things. She was enjoying what was going on. She was predicting things that she knew was going to happen. She, in effect, was playing God.”Parents and nurses described Letby on more than one occasion acting unusually when babies suddenly declined.
Letby also searched Facebook for the families of her victims. She would often search for a number of them within minutes of each other, seemingly going one by one hunting for grief, the prosecution said. She looked them up on the anniversaries of their babies’ deaths and even carried out searches on Christmas Day. In evidence, the nurse said she would search for all sorts of people, not just the parents of babies on the unit.
The nature of their relationship was said to be significant: he was one of the doctors who would be called when babies suddenly deteriorated. She harmed them, it was suggested, to get his “personal attention”. Letby denied this.As a band 5 nurse, Letby was qualified to care for the sickest babies on the neonatal unit. This meant she often wanted to be in nursery one, the intensive care suite.
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