Police are hunting a group of Chester FC supporters heard shouting an 'appalling' chant about Lucy Letby during their game against Hereford on Tuesday night.
20.08.2023 - 11:51 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The detective who brought child-killing nurse Beverley Allitt to justice three decades ago believes Lucy Letby’s crimes were so similar she may have even been inspired by the so-called “Angel of Death”.
Letby, 33, became Britain’s worst ever child killer after she was convicted on Friday of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others while working on the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016. She was found not guilty of two charges of attempted murder.
The jury at Manchester Crown Court was unable to reach verdicts on six further counts of the same offence. Now, Retired Detective Superintendent Stuart Clifton has told the Express Letby may have drawn inspiration for her crimes from Allitt, due to the number of similarities in the methods used by the evil pair.
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Allitt, now 54, was convicted of murdering four infants, attempting to murder three, and causing grievous bodily harm to a further six at the children’s ward of Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Lincolnshire, between February and April 1991. She received 13 life sentences at Nottingham Crown Court in May 1993.
She administered large doses of insulin to at least two of the victims and a large air bubble was found in the body of another. Simlarly, Letby misused medical equipment and medicines, including insulin, to cause babies to unexpectedly collapse across day and night shifts.
Mr Clifton, 79, from Boston, said: “You don’t expect people in the caring profession to actually commit atrocious crimes like this. I didn’t expect to see another case like Allitt. She was clearly, in many ways, abnormal, in the sense
Police are hunting a group of Chester FC supporters heard shouting an 'appalling' chant about Lucy Letby during their game against Hereford on Tuesday night.
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