Lucy Letby: Deeside mum haunted by photo with baby before death

A mum whose one-month-old babe died connected the portion wherever Lucy Letby worked has said she is "sickened" by a photograph of the caregiver with her son.

Emily Morris from Deeside, Flintshire, said she was preparing to permission the Countess of Chester Hospital erstwhile her lad Alvin died successful 2013.

She said Letby's "weird" behaviour was proven by a recently revealed image.

She is calling for the decease to beryllium reinvestigated and constabulary said inquiries were taking place.

Ms Morris, 35, and Alvin's stepdad Mark Lewis, 39, lone saw the representation for the archetypal clip connected Thursday.

It had been stored connected a disc included successful a representation container and they did not person a laptop connected which they could download the images.

"It shocked us. It's truly hard, to spot a idiosyncratic who has done that to those babies adjacent to you. It makes you sick," said Ms Morris.

"You tin spot she is grabbing his blanket. I person told everybody that she did that and present there's proof. That's impervious that she was with him."

Alvin was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy and cared for connected the neonatal portion pursuing his birth.

Ms Morris said she was archetypal acrophobic astir Letby's behaviour erstwhile she attended her son's christening astatine the hospital.

"She wanted to interaction him and alteration the bedding and perpetually wanted to thin implicit him," she said.

"And you conscionable think, 'that's weird for a nurse'. But each the different nurses were perfectly good with him.

"At the christening, erstwhile my household was leaning implicit the pram to marque a fuss of him, she was perpetually keeping her eyes connected my family."

She was fixed a whole-life sentence, meaning she volition walk the remainder of her beingness successful prison.

The UK government's Department of Health and Social Care has ordered an autarkic inquiry to look astatine the wider circumstances surrounding what happened, including the handling of clinicians' concerns.

Letby wrote a connection successful Alvin's christening book, which read: "To Alvin, with emotion connected your peculiar day."

Ms Morris said: "It was heartbreaking, seeing her sanction successful the book, due to the fact that of each the things we work successful the quality saying the kids that got targeted were the ones she wrote to.

"So I deliberation successful my bosom Alvin mightiness person been targeted."

Ms Morris said constabulary investigating Lucy Letby told her successful 2018 that they had not recovered immoderate suspicious circumstances successful Alvin's case, but called connected them to re-examine the evidence.

"I would consciousness sick to my tummy knowing that she wounded my boy, due to the fact that helium was the happiest babe successful the world, giggling and laughing, loving life," she said.

"So I would truly hatred it if she had really wounded my son."

He said "every azygous lawsuit that was progressive with Lucy Letby" should beryllium considered.

"Families request answers," helium said.

Det Supt Paul Hughes of Cheshire Police said the unit was "committed to a implicit and thorough probe into the afloat play of clip that Lucy Letby was employed arsenic a nurse".

"This probe remains ongoing, done a transparent and open-minded process," helium said.

"The families of each babies, who are portion of this investigation, person been informed and are supported. We volition of people supply a much elaborate update erstwhile we can."