Serial baby-killer nurse Lucy Letby uttered five heartless words as she was arrested
18.08.2023 - 18:47
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
Chilling footage shows the moment NHS nurse Lucy Letby was arrested on suspicion of murdering seven babies.
The 33-year-old was accused of harming the infants at Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit.
A jury at Manchester Crown Court found her guilty of seven counts of murder and six counts of attempted murder today, Friday, August 18. She was found not guilty of two further counts of attempted murder.
Letby, from Hereford, was judged to have deliberately harmed the infants in a number of different ways that developed over time, including by injecting air intravenously and administering air and/or milk into the stomach via nasogastric tubes.
She was also found to have added insulin as a poison to intravenous feeds, interfered with breathing tubes, and inflicted trauma in some cases.
Body cam footage released today after her conviction shows officers from Cheshire Constabulary arresting Lucy Letby on suspicion of murder on July 3, 2018, reports the Daily Mirror.
She can be seen in a blue tracksuit being led wordlessly out of her home before an officer attempts to place her in the back of an unmarked car.
The officer tells a handcuffed Letby as she attempts to place her in the vehicle: "I'm just going to put you in the back seat over here. Just take a seat in there for me, Lucy. I'll move that seat forward a bit for you."
The nurse, who has just been arrested on suspicion of murdering babies, sits in the car but makes no effort to move her legs around into the back seat and replies in a monotone voice: "I've just had knee surgery."
More footage released shows part of a police interview in which Letby was grilled about the deaths on the neonatal ward she worked at.
She sits still and claims everyone she worked with was