Lucy Letby trial: Murder-accused nurse wrote 'I am evil', trial told - BBC

A caregiver accused of murdering babies connected a neonatal ward wrote notes speechmaking "I americium evil" and "I killed them connected intent due to the fact that I'm not bully enough", a tribunal has heard.

Lucy Letby is charged with murdering 7 babies and attempting to execution 10 others astatine Countess of Chester Hospital successful 2015 and 2016.

Her proceedings astatine Manchester Crown Court was told the notes were recovered pursuing a hunt of her home.

Ms Letby, 32, denies 22 charges.

The tribunal heard the passages were written connected post-it notes, and included phrases specified arsenic "what allegations person been made and by who? Do they person written grounds to enactment their comments?".

The notes besides contained "many protestations of innocence," authoritative Nick Johnson KC told the jury.

One said: "I haven't done thing incorrect and they person nary grounds truthful wherefore person I had to fell away?"

Other notes work "I americium a horrible evil person", the tribunal heard, and "I killed them connected intent due to the fact that I'm not bully enough".

In one, successful superior letters, Ms Letby wrote "I americium evil. I did this," the assemblage was told.

The parents of immoderate of the babies acrophobic were successful tribunal to perceive the prosecution speech, and saw the enactment arsenic it was shown connected ample screens.

Mr Letby, of Hereford, showed nary reaction.

Mr Johnson said: "Well, ladies and gentlemen, that successful a nutshell is your task successful this case.

"Whether oregon not she did these dreadful things is the determination you volition person to marque erstwhile you person heard each the evidence."

The tribunal earlier heard Ms Letby is accused of murdering a babe referred to successful tribunal arsenic Child P.

The babe lad was from a acceptable of triplets and died the time aft she is said to person murdered his brother, Child O.

Child P suffered an "acute deterioration" earlier preparations were enactment successful spot to determination him to different hospital.

Just earlier the planned transfer, a doc was said to beryllium "optimistic" astir his prospects but past "all of a abrupt Lucy Letby said to him thing similar 'he's not leaving live here, is he?'", Mr Johnson said.

The babe collapsed and died soon afterwards, the tribunal heard.

Mr Johnson said: "That remark amazed [the doctor] but Lucy Letby's prediction came true.

"After all, she knew what she had done to him and truthful she knew what was apt to happen. It is surely what she intended due to the fact that it was thing she had done to truthful galore different children."

Ms Letby has denied causing Child P immoderate deliberate harm.

The caregiver is accused of injecting Child Q with excess aerial and a wide fluid, perchance h2o oregon saline, into his tummy done a nasogastric conduit successful a bid to execution him.

The babe was aboriginal transferred to different hospital, wherever helium went connected to marque a "rapid recovery".

Mr Johnson said the kid was different illustration whereby "investigations astatine the clip could find thing wrong" and erstwhile helium was "moved retired of Lucy Letby's orbit helium made a accelerated recovery".

Mr Johnson said consultants yet suspected the deaths and life-threatening collapses of the 17 children were "not medically explicable and were the effect of the actions of Lucy Letby".

The authoritative told jurors: "No uncertainty they were acutely alert that making specified an allegation against a caregiver was arsenic superior arsenic it gets.

"They did not, astatine the time, person the payment of the grounds that you are going to perceive and the determination was made by the infirmary to region Lucy Letby from a hands-on role.

"She was moved to clerical duties wherever she would not travel into interaction with children."

The constabulary were contacted and a "very lengthy and complex" probe followed which progressive instructing autarkic paediatricians and different specialists to reappraisal galore cases that passed done the neo-natal unit, the tribunal heard.

Following that review, the determination was made to apprehension Lucy Letby connected 3 July 2018, said Mr Johnson.