![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/lucy-letby-sent-series-of-chilling-texts-as-she-murdered-babies-to-gain-colleagues-sympathy/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_Nurse-Found-Guilty-Of-Murdering-Seven-Babies-At-Countess-Of-Chester-Hospital.jpg&description=After Letby killed babies she would send texts to her colleagues claiming to be heartbroken and looking for sympathy, even asking to work more shifts on the intensive neonatal unit Killer nurse Lucy Letby would text colleagues pretending to be heartbroken after she murdered babies. On Friday she was found guilty of killing seven babies and trying to take the lives of six more while working as a nurse on a neonatal unit between June 2015 and June 2016. The court heard how after Letby killed babies she would send texts to her colleagues trying to elicit their sympathy. The disturbing text messages show how she sought to cover her tracks and feign innocence even as she preyed on babies by injecting air into their bloodstreams or feeding tubes and poisoning them with insulin, causing them to collapse and die. In the messages she offers to work extra shifts at the neonatal intensive therapy unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Letby, who was in her mid-20s at the time of the murders, is now the UK's most prolific child killer of modern times. The messages, which would go on to become a key piece of evidence against her in court, show her bragging about how any inquiry would have "minimal' evidence against her. Letby killed her first victim, Baby A, on June 8 2015 after returning from a trip away. She took over care from fellow nurse Melanie Taylor, and within 90 minutes of her arriving on the ward Baby A was pronounced dead while Baby A's twin remained on the ward. The next day Letby messaged colleagues to say that she does not want to return to the nursery and see the parents - who also had a twin on the unit, Baby B - who she attacked sometime before June 11. Ms Taylor sent a WhatsApp message to Letby: 'I hope you are OK, you were brilliant.' Texting colleagues, Letby wrote: 'It was the hardest thing I've ever had to do... Just a big shock for us all. Hard coming in tonight & seeing the parents x x.' She continued in a message to one of the nurses the day after th){kind=link}
After Letby killed babies she would send texts to her colleagues claiming to be heartbroken and looking for sympathy, even asking to work more shifts on the intensive neonatal unit
Killer nurse Lucy Letby would text colleagues pretending to be heartbroken after she murdered babies.
On Friday she was found guilty of killing seven babies and trying to take the lives of six more while working as a nurse on a neonatal unit between June 2015 and June 2016.
The court heard how after Letby killed babies she would send texts to her colleagues trying to elicit their sympathy.
The disturbing text messages show how she sought to cover her tracks and feign innocence even as she preyed on babies by injecting air into their bloodstreams or feeding tubes and poisoning them with insulin, causing them to collapse and die.