Since she stopped caring for patients, there has been 1 death in 7 years. There were 6 in the year while she was on duty.
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I don’t know if it shows on this photo and I just can’t see it (Lemmios cuts photos off for some reason) but I read somewhere else that the nurse after Lucy that was there for the most attempted/murders were there for just 7 of the 25.
About the murders stopping, it occurred to me that if she were being set up, that would be the perfect time for the real murderer to stop - after someone else had been arrested. Clearly my latest criminal minds re-binge if affecting my brain though - so much evidence points to her it’s beyond unlikely that this is a set up/conspiracy.
Other nurses shared 1,2,5,2,6,2,6, and 5 shifts out of the 17 murders and attempted murders during her shifts.
Geez the judge told the jurors that they would never have to serve jury duty again because the case was so traumatic. I don’t even want to imagine what everyone involved went through.
tbh, i don’t think it’s common to do more than one jury service in your life anyway. My dad is gone 60 and he has only done one recently. i’m 30 and have not done one
I’m in my 30’s and have been summoned for jury duty multiple times, but never actually served as one.
Both my dad and partner have done it twice, each time for less than two weeks. I think the jurors in this cause were further excused because of the sheer length of the trial, rather than because the evidence they had to consider was particularly gruesome. Obviously a premature baby serial killer is gruesome, but I think jurors are usually excused from serving again if the trial has been so horrific that they’re offered counselling or something. It’s very very rare for a trial to take more than 6 weeks.
Wow. How horrible do you have to be to murder health premature babies?
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Guilty verdict not a surprise after reading about the case earlier this year. Having a nurse on the wards supposedly looking after the most vulnerable babies in hospital and instead killing them is every parents nightmare.
I always wonder, how many single-time murderers are there for every serial killer? Like how many nurses, doctors or other people with an opportunity just took and murdered once. How many people might get away with that?
Every serial killer has his first kill … but how many people have a first kill and then think … nah, I’d rather not do that but don’t get caught.
I want the say that I saw a statistic saying that murder clearance rates were only about 50%. That coupled with wrong conviction rates makes one wonder.
I genuinely don’t know if that’s true or not though.
I once had an off duty officer threaten me by mentioning the low rate of solved, and even lower convicted, murders.
That’s the kind of thing the FBI is interested in hearing. Please report it.
Jesus wept… I’m going to take a punt and guess this was in America?
I mean… it’s pretty much impossible to know how many undiscovered murders there are. Yes, you can do autopsies on everyone who’s declared dead and then figure out how many of them were killed, but there are a lot of ways to kill a person that won’t show up in an autopsy, especially in a hospital setting.
You can kill someone in healthcare without it being murder. People just expect some people to die.
Accidents happen if course. If it was a preventable accident it could potentially be classed under incompetence, which is kind of the medical version of manslaughter depending on the situation. But proving that would probably require another professional whistleblowing on a colleague.
Does anyone know if there was a motive? I didn’t see one in the article, but maybe I missed it.
Either way, she deserves permanent incarceration away from society. “Fucked up” is an inadequate description.
There’s a wiki article on the subject of nurses who kill their patients. It contains some general speculation on motivations.
The motivation for this type of criminal behaviour is variable, but generally falls into one or more types or patterns:[4]
Mercy killer: Believe the victims are suffering or beyond help, though this belief may be delusional.
Sadistic: Use their position as a way of exerting power and control over helpless victims.
Malignant hero: A pattern wherein the subject endangers the victim’s life in some way and then proceeds to “save” them. Some feign attempting resuscitation, all the while knowing their victim is already dead and beyond help, but hope to be seen as selflessly making an effort.None of them seem to fit here. A mercy killer would only work if she views the world as so bad that she spares the babies the suffering in growing up inside of it, but she seems to acknowledge that she’s a terrible person. This fact also makes me want to cross out the sadistic one, because I feel a sadistic sociopath wouldn’t end up feeling remorse. And from what I can tell she didn’t try to be the hero either, not even sure you can with some of the ways she chose to kill them. Could maybe some sort of compulsion or deeper mental issues, like hearing voices or something. There’s definitely something very wrong with her.
Sadists can feel disgust about their actions after the fact so I’d say that category fits in this instance.
no real motive has been established
They found this note, it gives us a tiny glimpse into Lucy’s mind, at least…
Does someone mind transcribing the chicken scratch handwriting?
I don’t know, all other actions seem very competent and very different from the note. Without thorough investigation by professional we can’t draw conclusions from that. It may just be that she prefers people thinking that she is crazy rather than a heartless monster. The note seems very deliberately written to look crazy to me but who knows
That was my thought as well. Maybe she knew she was close to getting caught and hoped to be labeled criminally insane for some kind of imagined lighter sentence.
In the US, at least, being deemed insane by the courts lands you in unpleasant, secure psychiatric facilities whose patients are often forgotten and abused worse than inmates, but maybe it’s better in the UK…?
Wow what a chilling story, never knew about this. How anyone can think they can get away with this is beyond me.
The companion story: Hospital bosses ignored months of doctors’ warnings about Lucy Letby suggests that not only did hospital management ignore the problem for almost 9 months, they had no interest in involving the police or outside investigators. They even required two of the doctors to apologize to her for their accusations.
So I guess she was getting away with it just fine.
Every one of those involved in shushing it up need naming and prosecuting. They won’t be though.
If more people went to jail for ignoring issues or covering them up we’d see less of this kind of thing taking so long to get resolved.
There was actually someone similar in the news when I was growing up, Beverly Allit. I remember seeing stuff about that on the local news because it wasn’t that far away from where we were. It’s pretty terrifying, the idea that you can just be leaving your children in the hands of people like this
I have a child. I read just to the part in the article about what she did and I fucking cried. I never wanna see this picture or hear about her again.
What an irredeemable monster.
Suffer in prison and then rot in hell, you bitch
Gallows.
Was going to ask how this woman never showed signs of this possibility before this all harpooned, and then I read this “Her mother sobbed loudly and was heard to say “this can’t be right - you can’t be serious” while the families of the babies cried and gasped.” Yup, there were definitely signs before, like there always are.
By all accounts your summary shows there were no signs. What about your comment reveals any existing signs?
This is what the left wants.
You want to unpack that for us?
I think the person is suggesting that the mother is delusional and therefore so must have been the daughter. Not sure.
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Yeah, unfortunately that wasn’t obvious, since I’ve seen literally exactly these words with intent behind them in other comments. As rustyfish pointed out, Poe’s Law is the law of the land; text doesn’t come with tone.
You are an idiot.
Unlike you with your ability to perfectly sense sarcasm every single time.
Edit: The commenter called me an idiot. I’m disappointed that a harmless comment like that got deleted. They’re entitled to think so and also to let me know how they feel when I make the conscious decision to make a controversial statement on a public forum.
You seem to be new to the internet. Please check out Poe’s Law.
This way you won’t sound like one of the dumbasses who actually believe that shite you wrote.
Edit: Is it just me or is Memmy fucking up my links? The Wikipedia link got redirected to Edgar Allan Poe and the UD link ended up in Poe stuff too.
Edit2: Ok, you deleted your comment before I could reply. So, you are just an edgelord. What a waste of time you are.
You accused your political opponents of supporting baby-murdering… sarcastically?
funny joke, haha.
They also all have young male prostitutes in their basement that they torture for fun.
I’m pretty certain people in Chester don’t want their babies being murdered in hospital regardless of which party they vote for.
What on earth are you on about?
Just some classical trolling for nostalgias sake. Thank you for your participation.
Well no offence but I’ve got family in Chester so you can fuck off
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This is what the left wants.
You are so fucked in the head that you literally use the murder of babies to push your dumbass political agenda.
If you read into the follow up comments you’d realise that I’m making fun of those you accuse me to be a part of.
Same difference, sorry.
Yeah… exactly… except that I’ve never seen an embryo in neonatal care. Wonder if there’s a reason for that, Mr. “let’s make the horrific murder of born babies in the UK about fucking bipartisan US-Bullshit-Politics”
Gosh, I hate those people.Edit: If you lot in New Religioustan as a society want to let women die because AbOrTiOnS aRe BaD… that’s your perogative. Your fucked up perogative, but your perogative. But… like… leave the rest of us alone, perhaps? You know… the part of the world where one upping “the other side” isn’t the whole deal in politics and the politicians with a hint of a soul get a say sometimes… We like our human rights and our actual freedom intact, thank you very much.
It’s naive to think the UK is somehow immune to the polarization we suffer in American politics.
Oh, first of all: I’m not only talking about the UK, but in this setting that reduction is understandable
Secondly: No, of course no place in the world is immune to this shit. None. But right now, many places in the world are not struggling with this shit at the same level and hopefully never will, so no need to infect each and every talk on the internet with US-Politics and the dire and gloomy things that go on over there.
I’m actually German and it seems like you got a little bit bamboozled. Thank you for your participation.
