Accused killer nurse Lucy Letby loved “taking part in God” on the UK hospital the place she allegedly killed seven infants and tried to homicide 10 extra, prosecutors mentioned.
Letby, 33, was mentioned to be “utterly uncontrolled” on the Countess of Chester Hospital after allegedly finishing up a string of assaults within the neonatal unit between 2015 and 2016, prosecutor Nick Johnson instructed the court docket throughout closing statements on Tuesday.
Jurors heard that the nurse had “received away with a lot” amid the alleged homicide spree that she began to develop the “misplaced confidence she may just about do no matter she needed.”
“She knew what was going to occur,” Johnson mentioned. “She was having fun with what was happening and fortunately predicting what she knew was going to occur.”
“She, in impact, was taking part in God,” he added.
Letby, who has pleaded not responsible to 22 homicide and tried homicide expenses, allegedly killed two triplet boys — recognized solely as Child O and Child P — shortly after getting back from a visit to Ibiza in June 2016, jurors heard.
The nurse is accused of injecting Child O with air by way of an nasogastric tube that left him with an “inflicted traumatic damage to the liver.”
The court docket had beforehand heard throughout Letby’s trial that Child O had been in situation earlier than his “outstanding deterioration” and dying.
The toddler’s brother, Child P, died 24 hours later after allegedly being attacked by the nurse.
Prosecutors mentioned Letby’s “goal, as at all times, was to kill.”
“In [Child O’s] case she mixed all three strategies she had used to such devastating impact on all the opposite youngsters within the case. In order to attempt to cowl up what she did, she falsified the notes,” Johnson mentioned.
“We say, frankly, by this stage she was utterly uncontrolled and was decided to mete out the identical remedy to [Child P] the very subsequent day.”
In the week after Child O and Child P’s slayings, Letby was faraway from the neonatal unit by hospital managers and given a clerical position, which is the place she remained till her arrest in 2018.
During her personal testimony through the trial, Letby sobbed about her “traumatizing” arrest — and claimed she “couldn’t imagine” that she had been charged with the sickening crimes.
“It was sickening. I simply couldn’t imagine it,” she mentioned of the second she realized she had been suspended from neonatal care following a string of unexplained toddler deaths.
“My job was my life. I can’t put into phrases, it’s simply — my complete world simply stopped.”
Letby was additionally questioned about notes recovered from her residence during which she berated herself with messages like “I hate myself” and “I’m an terrible particular person.”
“I felt immense duty [for the babies’ deaths],” she instructed jurors. “I felt I had been incompetent or executed one thing improper that had harmed youngsters.”
Accused killer nurse Lucy Letby loved “taking part in God” on the UK hospital the place she allegedly killed seven infants and tried to homicide 10 extra, prosecutors mentioned.
Letby, 33, was mentioned to be “utterly uncontrolled” on the Countess of Chester Hospital after allegedly finishing up a string of assaults within the neonatal unit between 2015 and 2016, prosecutor Nick Johnson instructed the court docket throughout closing statements on Tuesday.
Jurors heard that the nurse had “received away with a lot” amid the alleged homicide spree that she began to develop the “misplaced confidence she may just about do no matter she needed.”
“She knew what was going to occur,” Johnson mentioned. “She was having fun with what was happening and fortunately predicting what she knew was going to occur.”
“She, in impact, was taking part in God,” he added.
Letby, who has pleaded not responsible to 22 homicide and tried homicide expenses, allegedly killed two triplet boys — recognized solely as Child O and Child P — shortly after getting back from a visit to Ibiza in June 2016, jurors heard.
The nurse is accused of injecting Child O with air by way of an nasogastric tube that left him with an “inflicted traumatic damage to the liver.”
The court docket had beforehand heard throughout Letby’s trial that Child O had been in situation earlier than his “outstanding deterioration” and dying.
The toddler’s brother, Child P, died 24 hours later after allegedly being attacked by the nurse.
Prosecutors mentioned Letby’s “goal, as at all times, was to kill.”
“In [Child O’s] case she mixed all three strategies she had used to such devastating impact on all the opposite youngsters within the case. In order to attempt to cowl up what she did, she falsified the notes,” Johnson mentioned.
“We say, frankly, by this stage she was utterly uncontrolled and was decided to mete out the identical remedy to [Child P] the very subsequent day.”
In the week after Child O and Child P’s slayings, Letby was faraway from the neonatal unit by hospital managers and given a clerical position, which is the place she remained till her arrest in 2018.
During her personal testimony through the trial, Letby sobbed about her “traumatizing” arrest — and claimed she “couldn’t imagine” that she had been charged with the sickening crimes.
“It was sickening. I simply couldn’t imagine it,” she mentioned of the second she realized she had been suspended from neonatal care following a string of unexplained toddler deaths.
“My job was my life. I can’t put into phrases, it’s simply — my complete world simply stopped.”
Letby was additionally questioned about notes recovered from her residence during which she berated herself with messages like “I hate myself” and “I’m an terrible particular person.”
“I felt immense duty [for the babies’ deaths],” she instructed jurors. “I felt I had been incompetent or executed one thing improper that had harmed youngsters.”
