The ‘beige’ angel of death who played God to murder tiny babies
manchestereveningnews.co.ukIf she hadn’t murdered tiny babies, Lucy Letby would be considered an unremarkable woman - ‘beige’ is how one of the detectives who investigated her terrible crimes described her.
She lived in a modest three-bed semi on the Blacon estate on the outskirts of Chester. She had two teddy bears on her bed, two pet cats, Smudge and Tigger, and was a fan of Take That, Love Island and salsa dancing.
Single, she was said to have an active social life. She sometimes went into work in the neonatal unit at the city’s hospital carrying a Morrisons shopping bag. Join our WhatsAp p Top Stories and Breaking News group by clicking this link. But underneath her veneer of humdrum normalcy was a truth so shocking her own colleagues struggled to believe it.
After all, nobody wants to believe a nurse would attack babies. The sinister, barely conceivable truth is that Letby, who told colleagues it was ‘boring’ looking after babies who merely needed feeding, gravitated towards sick and extremely premature infants and, in the end, got a sick thrill from cleverly and discreetly attacking infants in her care - even when colleagues were close by.
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