The medical expert who helped to prove Lucy Letby murdered babies in her care has said he would not be happy until all 257 cases she kept details on were fully investigated.
Dr Dewi Evans, who said at the nurse’s trial that warnings were missed, urged police and the Crown Prosecution Service to consider notes she kept on hundreds of babies.
Letby was jailed with a whole life order at Manchester Crown Court last month for the murders of seven babies and attempted murders of six at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Dr Evans, who began investigating the case in 2017, said he was not told about the 257 histories until “after I had finished giving evidence”.
He added: “I thought ‘Oh my God these are trophies’. It’s what serial killers do.
“The defence tried to pooh-pooh this and say, ‘No no, she is just a hoarder’. But the alternative interpretation of that is that she may have tried to put all of those babies in harm’s way. I wouldn’t be happy to close the case, the file, until at least those 257 cases were looked at.”
The prosecution said Letby’s methods of harm included injecting air and insulin into blood, force feeding an overdose of fluids and causing impact-type trauma. Paediatrician Dr Evans, prosecution expert in cases including the murder of tot Finley Boden, thinks Letby changed methods after a course.
He said: “Letby did not turn up to work one evening and say, ‘I’m going to inject some air into this baby’.
“I was told towards the end of the trial she had been on an intravenous course. She would have been told about the dangers of air getting into the circulation…one week or two weeks prior to the first fatality.”
- Paul Buckland, 35, of Plymouth, who like Letby refused to attend court for sentencing, has been jailed for 20 years at Winchester for sex assaults on a child. His stance was called an aggravating factor in his sentence.
