She Will Live

But it will be a living death for Lucy Letby

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Lucy Letby, a 33-year-old neonatal nurse from Hereford, has today been sentenced to a ‘whole life’ tariff in prison. A life sentence with no possibility of parole.

While working as a neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital, Letby attacked some 13 newborn babies, seven of whom died as a result of her actions. Her methods included force-feeding, the injection of air into their stomachs and bloodstreams, or the injection of large doses of insulin.

As yet, no clear reason has been determined for her actions. However, it has been suggested that she was fascinated by the spectacle of medical teams attempting desperately to revive and save these babies.

Now even as I write, I have no doubt that quills are being sharpened, daggers prepared and axes ground. I am sure that it will not be long before the first ‘expose’ appears, detailing how poor Lucy was railroaded. How the police, the consultants, the hospital board and probably the Freemasons (“All that lot are all Masons!”) conspired and on the basis of mere circumstantial evidence made a hard-working nurse the scapegoat to cover up their failures.

Equally, there will be a shedload of cod psychology produced, probably tying in other medical mass murderers and serial killers, to ‘prove’ that…