Lucy Letby’s chilling eight words to distraught mum whose baby was dying in front of her

Lucy Letby was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill eight others while working as a neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital. A recent inquiry into her crimes revealed a heartbreaking story about one of the babies she killed.

The mother of the baby, who is a doctor herself, described the night her newborn son suddenly collapsed. She was woken up by a nurse and told her baby was in critical condition. The baby, who was born 10 weeks early and weighed just 1 pound 12 ounces, was rushed to the neonatal unit, where doctors tried desperately to save him.

Amid the chaos, a nurse the mother didn’t recognize approached her and asked a chilling question: “Would you like me to call a priest?” The mother later told the inquiry that this moment was when she realized her son might not survive. She said, “Even though my baby was receiving CPR, I was still confused and disoriented about what was happening. It wasn’t until that question was asked that it hit me—he might die. I asked the nurse, ‘Do you think he’s going to die?’ and she replied, ‘Yes, I think so.’ At the time, I didn’t know her name, but I now believe it was Lucy Letby.”

The baby’s death was unexpected. Although he was very small and fragile, doctors believed he was stable and had a chance to survive. They were completely baffled by his sudden collapse. It was later discovered that Letby had killed the baby by injecting air into his stomach through a feeding tube, which stopped him from breathing. This happened when the baby was just four days old. Tragically, this was the second baby boy Letby murdered in the span of a single week in June 2015.

Lucy Letby’s crimes took place between June 2015 and June 2016 while she worked in the hospital’s neonatal unit. She targeted the most vulnerable infants, often those born prematurely or with serious health challenges.

Her actions shocked the community and left families devastated. Letby is now serving a life sentence in prison, with no possibility of parole, for the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of eight others. The inquiry into her crimes continues to uncover the full extent of her actions and the pain she caused to so many families.