Chilling parallels between baby murderer Lucy Letby and another killer nurse

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Baby murderer Lucy Letby shares chilling parallels with another killer nurse who also used synthetic insulin to attack his victims.Victorino Chua was jailed for life with a minimum 35 years behind bars after murdering two patients and poisoning a further 19 in Stockport.Like Letby, Chua showed zero remorse and even penned secret confessions nobody else was supposed to see.Letby used insulin twice to attempt to kill babies in her care, much like Chua who used the same technique at Stepping Hill Hospital.Chua was found guilty by a jury in May 2015.

He injected deadly insulin into saline ampoules and bags, leaving them for medics to administer to patients and causing their blood sugar levels to collapse.Five patients crashed at the same time after Chua’s night shift in July 2011, reported the Manchester Evening News.Doctors used sugars like glucose and dextrose to revive patients, only to watch them crash again, unaware the saline drips and ampoules they were using had been sabotaged.But no one suspected foul-play, with staff reasoning that a faulty batch of insulin must have been the cause.The breakthrough came after detectives found a frozen blood sample from one of Chua’s victims which should’ve been destroyed and found it stuffed with insulin.Only a month after Chua was jailed, Letby started attacking babies at the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital.

Mainly she attacked the infants by injecting air into their tiny bodies.However, on two occasions she copied the method favoured by Chua, injecting synthetic insulin into bags of nutrients.The babies collapsed moments after they were administered with the synthetic insulin.While managers at the Countess of Chester are alleged to have resisted concerns about