METRO
Nurse Lucy Letby sobbed in the witness box as she described being arrested for killing babies as ‘the scariest thing I have ever been through’.
She is alleged to have murdered seven and tried to kill 10 more while working on the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.
Letby, 33, described as a ‘constant malevolent presence’ in their care, stepped into the witness box at Manchester Crown Court on Tuesday to begin giving evidence seven months into her trial.
She was quizzed about a Post-It note found at her home after she was arrested, on which she scrawled ‘I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough’ and ‘I am evil I did this’.
Asked why she wrote those words, Letby said: ‘Because I felt at the time, I had done something wrong and I thought I’m such an awful, evil person … that I had made mistakes and not known.’
Her barrister Ben Myers KC asked: ‘What had you thought you had done?’
Letby said: ‘That somehow, I had been incompetent, and I had done something wrong to affect these babies. I felt I…
