“After listening to us for less than 10 minutes, a police investigation began and Letby was arrested,” said Dr. Jairam said.
London:
An Indian-origin pediatrician working at a hospital in northern England was among those who helped a nurse convicted of murdering seven children by a British court on Friday. Dr Ravi Jairam, from the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, said if his concerns about the former nurse had been heeded and the police informed, some of the children’s lives could have been saved.
A jury at Manchester Crown Court on Friday found nurse Lucy Latby, 33, guilty of the murders of seven newborn babies and the attempted murders of six others. He will be sentenced in this court on Monday.
“I really believe that four or five children who would be going to school today are not (in this world),” Jairam told ITV News after the verdict.
Doctors are worried after the death of three children
He said that after the death of three infants in June 2015, doctors first started raising concerns and when more children died, some senior doctors like him approached senior hospital officials to express their concern about Latbi. Had many meetings together.
Finally, in April 2017, the National Health Service Trust allowed doctors to meet police officers.
Dr. Jairam said, “After listening to us for less than 10 minutes, the police realized that this was something they had to get into as well. ..” An investigation ensued and Latby was arrested.
Letby used several methods to kill the children.
Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) reported that Latby used several methods to attack a total of 13 babies in the hospital’s neonatal ward between 2015 and 2016.
According to CPS, Lucy Latby (33) harmed these newborns through a variety of means, including intentionally injecting air into the bloodstream, feeding air and milk into their stomachs through a ‘nasogastric tube’.
CPS says Letby intended to kill the children, but she assured her co-workers that the deaths were natural.
Prosecuting attorney Nick Johnson said Lucy Latby had led her colleagues to believe the continued deaths were “just the result of bad luck”. Lucy Latby’s final victims were two triplet boys, identified in court as Infants ‘O’ and ‘P’.
In June 2016, baby ‘O’ died shortly after Lucy Letby returned from a holiday in Ibiza, while baby ‘P’ died a day after his siblings. It was also said that Lucy Letby tried to kill the third child ‘Q’.
Lucy Latby was out of control
Johnson said that Lucy Latby had become “completely out of control” at the time, and that “she was really playing God”.
Lucy Letby was arrested and released twice. After his third arrest in 2020, he was formally charged and held in custody.
During a search of her home, police found hospital papers and a handwritten note written by Lucy Letby: “I’m evil, I did it.”
Lucy Latby later tried to explain the note by saying that she wrote it while performing clerical duties following the death of two of the three children.
(Also input from AFP)