Lucy Letby accused of murdering babies 'found' with note saying: 'I AM EVIL I DID THIS', court hears

A neonatal nurse accused of murdering babies was found by police with a post-it note stating: “I AM EVIL I DID THIS”, a trial has heard.

Lucy Letby, 32, is charged with murdering seven babies and faces 15 attempted murder charges involving ten more children. The offences allegedly occurred whilst she was working as a neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016. She denies all charges.

On day four of the trial being heard at Manchester Crown Court, prosecutor Nick Johnson KC concluded his opening address. He told jurors that Ms Letby was moved from the neonatal unit to a clerical role which saw she had no further contact with children in June 2016.

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“Following the events of the year from June 2015 – June 2016 which I have outlined, the consultants suspected that the deaths and life-threatening events of these 17 children were not medically explicable and were the result of the actions of Lucy Letby,” Mr Johnson said.

He said that staff were aware that there was ‘no doubt’ that staff were ‘acutely aware’ that making such an allegation against a nurse was ‘as serious as it gets’.

The police were called in and a lengthy investigation followed in which medics were asked to review the cases, and she was later arrested in July 2018.

Following her arrest in July 2018, officers found paperwork she had kept of some of the babies, along with post-it notes in which she had written names of some of her colleagues.

Some of the phrases she had written read: “Why/how has this happened – what process has led to this current situation. What allegations have been made and by who? Do they have written evidence to support their