Why Did UK Nurse Lucy Letby Kill Babies? Motives listed by investigators

 Why Did UK Nurse Lucy Letby Kill Babies? Motives listed by investigators

Although there may never be a complete explanation for Lucy Letby's behaviour, the prosecution provided the jury with a number of plausible explanations.

London: One of the deadliest medical serial killers in the UK, nurse Lucy Letby was found guilty on Friday of killing seven newborns and attempting to kill six more. The newest victim of hers was just one day old.

The 33-year-old's motivations may never be completely revealed, but the prosecution provided the jury with a number of potential explanations over the 10-month trial.

She liked "playing God."

Two triplet boys who were identified as infants O and P in court were Lucy Letby's last victims. In June 2016, just after Letby returned from a vacation in Ibiza, kid O passed away, and child P passed away one day later.

Prosecutors said at the trial that Letby was "absolutely out of control" at that point and "in effect playing God."

The prosecutor said she "played God" by injuring a newborn and then being the first to inform her coworkers of the child's failing condition.

She had the upper hand. She was content with the situation. She was making predictions about events that she knew were inevitable. She was essentially acting as God, a prosecutor claimed.

She loved torturing the infants

Letby was twice detained before being let go. She was officially charged after her third arrest in 2020 and was kept in detention.

Police discovered hospital records and a handwritten letter on which Letby had written: "I am evil, I did this." when searching her home.

The prosecution claimed during the trial that Letby was enjoying the anguish and desolation present. She Desired A Distant Doctor's Attention

At the Countess of Chester Hospital, Letby allegedly had a covert connection with a married doctor, according to the prosecution.

It was considered an essential part of their connection that he was one of the doctors who would be notified when newborns rapidly worsened. Letby refuted the implication that she did them harm in exchange for his "personal attention."

Even after Letby was discharged from the newborn ward in July 2016, according to texts shown to the court, the couple continued to communicate often, exchanging love heart emoticons, and met up many times outside of work.

She was insufficiently good

One of the letters written by Lucy Letby that was shown to the jury said, "I killed them on purpose because I'm not sufficient to care for them. I'll never have firsthand experience.

Boredom

Since Lucy Letby was a band 5 nurse, she possessed the knowledge and experience necessary to care for the newborn unit's sickest infants. She said throughout the trial that she occasionally found her work less fascinating when she was given newborns who didn't require as much medical care.

excerpts from nurse Lucy Letby's 2016 diary

The prosecution provided proof that Letby attacked infants using a variety of techniques, including injecting air and insulin into their bloodstreams, injecting air into their gastrointestinal tracts, forcing them to consume excessive amounts of milk or fluids, and inflicting impact-type damage.

The jury was informed that she wanted to murder the infants while duping her coworkers into thinking there was a natural cause. Lucy Letby tried to mislead her coworkers by claiming that the harm she inflicted was simply a worsening of each baby's preexisting susceptibility. She had the ability to turn harmless items like air, milk, liquids, or medications like insulin into deadly ones. She weaponized her art and misused her education to cause hurt, grief, and death, according to Pascale Jones of the CPS.

She repeatedly injured infants in settings that ought to have been secure for them and their families. She completely betrayed the faith that had been placed in her, he added, with her attacks.