Lucy Letby's disturbing Christmas Day error that blew her whole twisted cover
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Lucy Letby continues to protest her innocence as she spends Christmas behind bars, but one chilling mistake helped bring her despicable crimes to light. The former neonatal nurse will be spending Christmas languishing inside her cell, having been found guilty of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of seven more between June 2015 and June 2016. Back in October, Letby, failed in her bid to overturn her latest conviction for the attempted murder of a baby girl, known as Child K.
Letby, 34, abused her position at the Chester's Countess of Chester Hospital in the worst way imaginable, targeting babies she'd sworn to protect and devastating families who'd put their trust in her. It was to these families that Letby's thoughts turned to on Christmas Day, 2015, right in the middle of her killing spree. And her morbid internet searches ultimately proved damning.
Among various disturbing aspects of the case, Manchester Crown Court was told how cruel Letby "tracked families of her victims on Facebook after killing them". It was discovered that Lucy had searched for the mother of Baby E and Baby F nine times and the father once - even looking up their names on Christmas Day, 2015. During cross-examination, as per Sky News, Letby told the court, "I often thought of [her]", to which prosecutor Nick Johnson KC responded, "She was the person who caught you in the act." Letby denied this was the reason why she remembered her, stating that they had a 'good relationship'.
Hereford-born Letby admitted to carrying out the searches, which added up to a total of 2,380 across 12 months, but claimed she had looked out of 'general curiosity' and denied getting a kick out of it. Psychologist and body language expert Darren Stanton has previously shed some light on the intentions behind these searches during an interview with the Mirror, equating this sort of behaviour to a pre-social media era killer returning to the scene of a crime.
