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This is the moment nurse Lucy Letby was first arrested for attacking vulnerable babies.
Police turned up at her three-bedroom home in Chester at 6am on July 3, 2018 – two years after she worked her final shift on the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit.
Health chiefs had moved her to clerical duties so she could not harm anyone after consultants raised concerns about her ‘common link’ to several catastrophic collapses on the ward.
Giving evidence during her trial, Letby, 33, described her arrests as ‘traumatising’ and ‘the scariest thing I have ever been through’, and adding she has since been diagnosed with PTSD.
Footage from her interview shows her telling detectives she was aware of an increase in deaths on the unit and that she had been ‘linked as somebody who was there for a lot of them’.
One asks: ‘Did you have any concerns that there was a rise in mortality rate?’
Letby replies: ‘Yes. I think we’d all just noticed as a team in general, the nursing staff, that this was a rise compared to previous years.’
She wept in the dock as photographs of her bedroom taken by a crime scene officer following her arrest were shown in court.
On the bedroom walls there were two framed pictures containing the slogans Shine Like A Diamond and Leave Sparkles Wherever You Go.
Two teddy bears were positioned on an unmade double bed while among items on the floor were a red suitcase, a large burgundy handbag, and a small black handbag.
Jurors were also shown a green Post-it note which was found inside a 2016 diary recovered from a chest of drawers.
It was covered in handwritten notes, including ‘I am evil I did this’ and ‘I don’t deserve to live’
She had also scrawled the words ‘I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough to care for them. I am a horrible evil person’.
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