“All hell broke loose just after Lucy was at her bed”: parents fear that British nurse also wanted to kill their premature baby | Abroad

Letby (33) is regarded as England’s worst child killer, so she was sentenced to life the day before yesterday. The nurse was mainly targeting premature babies. Their fragile health has long been the perfect alibi for the dramas that took place in the maternity ward. Usually she struck at night, when parents were not there and there was little supervision from colleagues and superiors.

The investigation focused on seventeen suspicious deaths and fifteen unexplained baby breakdowns in 2015 and 2016. However, the British police do not rule out that Letby has (much) more to her credit. Currently, the data of 4,000 babies born on wards where Letby worked are being examined.

One case from 2013 already raises the necessary questions. Whitfield fears her daughter should have been one of the first victims. “When I first saw her picture on TV, I felt my stomach tighten. That was the same nurse who was standing over Felicity’s cot,” mother Victoria Whitfield told the morning show ‘Good Morning Britain’.

Whitfield remembers November 20th as if it were yesterday. “Our daughter was able to breathe on her own, so she did fine. Around 3am my maternal instincts told me I’d better take a look. A nurse – maybe it was Lucy – had sent my husband home at the time because he looked so tired.”

“When I entered the hallway, I saw Lucy at our daughter’s bedside. She looked at me for a moment and then walked away. Not much later – to me it felt like seconds – all the alarms went off and all hell broke loose.”

Felicity was in such bad shape that a pastor rushed to baptize her. It was only when the baby was transferred to a nearby hospital that a remarkable turnaround followed. The girl recovered very quickly, now she has grown into a nine-year-old smiley face bursting with energy.

The Whitfields never had contact with Letby since that predicament. They were going to ask a word of explanation from the hospital management. “However, we were only told that such a thing can happen to a premature baby,” it sounds.

Undoubtedly a lot of precious time was lost. For example, it took more than a year before management began to notice that the death toll in neonatology was rising. Only when colleagues made the link with the times when Letby was on the work schedule were the police notified.

Officers found hundreds of medical documents at the woman’s home. The judge labeled those papers “sick accounts of the terrible events”. She had also scribbled in a diary that she was “the evil that had done this”. Despite this, Letby kept denying the whole time and says she has to pay for mistakes in the hospital.

Childhood friends of Letby, meanwhile, remain firmly convinced that she is not to blame. “I don’t believe Lucy had anything to do with it until she admitted it herself,” Dawn Howe said on the BBC’s ‘Panorama’ programme. “As a group of friends, we stand behind her. I grew up with her in Hereford. I never noticed anything strange about her, let alone that she would be capable of such a thing. She is the sweetest person I know, such accusations are just out of whack.”

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