EXCLUSIVE: The doctor who helped catch Britain’s worst baby killer.
Dr Ravi Jayaram spent two years pleading with hospital managers to investigate Lucy Letby.
Instead, they made him apologise and attend mediation with her.
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“Could we have stopped Lucy Letby earlier?”
Dr John Gibbs, a consultant pediatrician who worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital at the same time as Lucy Letby, questions why it took so long for police to be called in.
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Women lose so much at everything.
It’s great to see them finally winning at something.
I mean, child murder is not really something to be proud of in general, but the fact that women are the best at killing children means they could some day become the best at something else.
Probably not chess. Or any sport.
But maybe they could become the best at… torturing cats?
A British nurse who described herself as a “horrible evil person” was found guilty on Friday of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to kill another six in the neonatal unit of a hospital in northwest England where she worked.
Lucy Letby, 33, was convicted of killing five baby boys and two baby girls at the Countess of Chester hospital and attacking other newborns, often while working night shifts, in 2015 and 2016.
The verdict, following a harrowing 10-month trial at Manchester Crown Court, makes Letby Britain’s most prolific serial child killer in modern history, local media said.
Lucy Letby
She was found not guilty of two attempted murders while the jury, who spent 110 hours deliberating, were unable to agree on six other suspected attacks.
“We are heartbroken, devastated, angry and feel numb, we may never truly know why this happened,” the families of Letby’s victims said in a statement.
Prosecutors told the jury Letby poisoned some of her infant victims by injecting them with insulin, while others were injected with air or force fed milk, sometimes involving multiple attacks before they died.
“I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough to care for them,” said a handwritten note found by police officers who searched her home after she was arrested. “I am a horrible evil person,” she wrote. “I AM EVIL I DID THIS”.
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Her actions came to light when senior doctors became concerned at the number of unexplained deaths and collapses at the neonatal unit, where premature or sick babies are treated, over 18 months from January 2015.
With doctors unable to find a medical reason, police were called in. After a lengthy investigation, Letby, who had been involved in the care of the babies, was pinpointed as the “constant malevolent presence when things took a turn for the worse”, said prosecutor Nick Johnson.
Pictures of Letby on social media portrayed a happy and smiling woman with a busy social life, and in one photo she was seen cradling a baby. But, during months of often distressing evidence, her trial heard she was a determined killer.
The jury was told how Letby had tried on four occasions to murder one baby girl before she finally succeeded. When another of the victim’s mothers walked in on her attacking twin babies, she said: “Trust me, I’m a nurse”.
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One senior doctor at the neonatal unit, Stephen Brearey, told the BBC that hospital bosses had failed to investigate allegations against Letby and failed to act on his and his colleagues’ concerns.
Yeah, because she’s a woman.
Women are not totally above the law in the way that the blacks are, but you can’t just go around investigating them.
Stephen Brearey
It looks like it was being actively covered up.
But hey, what can you do?
Women have to have the ability to act with total impunity, because that’s the only way to stop the patriarchy. And that’s going to mean some babies are going to get murdered.
You know what they say about eggs and omelets. Just think of these dead babies as eggs in the omelet of women’s empowerment.
Look at this – the second paragraph.
I’d say Karen Rees has some explaining to do…..#lucyletby
“And even when the lead consultant, Stephen Brearey, went back to management in the hours after Baby P’s death on June 24, 2016, his request to have Letby taken off the neonatal… https://t.co/DnXaMaHfoG
— Mike (@MikeSouthWestUK) August 18, 2023
Lynsey Artell told Sky News she fears her newborn baby was harmed by child murderer Lucy Letby the day after she made a complaint about the nurse.
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