Mum sends powerful message to Lucy Letby as former nurse sentenced for trying to murder baby

Sitting yards from the evil killer who tore her life apart, the mum was emotional, yet dignified. Lucy Letby, the nurse turned serial child killer, had tried to murder her defenceless little baby, an ‘extremely premature’ child who weighed just 692g, by deliberately dislodging her breathing tube.

Child K, as she was known, died a few days later. Her death, following a planned transfer from the Countess of Chester to a more specialist hospital, could not be attributed to Letby.

Speaking in court, with Letby sat in the dock to her left, Child K’s mother teared up at times as she told how her family’s ‘world fell apart and changed forever’ on the day her child died.

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She said: “We could control our feelings before and held it together, but now any mention of [Child K] and that lump appears uncontrollably in your throat. You’re hot, uneasy, your senses on overload, listening but thinking and not fully processing all at once.”

It was only months later that she learned police were investigating the circumstances of her child’s death, receiving a phone call which she described as being like a ‘bolt out of the blue’.

She said: "These same feelings and emotions rose to the surface once again a year later following a phone call from the police to say [Child K’s] death was under investigation.

"We were in complete shock, as from what we can recall my care and the care of [Child K] while under the Countess was superb and that within [Child K’s] most critical and needing time that anyone would think or try to knowingly hurt her was unthinkable.

"She was defenceless. She was in the right place to be looked after."

The mum told