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A screenshot from footage of Lucy Letby’s first police interview on 3 July 2018.

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“I think we’d all just noticed as a team in general, the nursing staff, that this was a rise compared to previous years,” she told the officer.

Countess of Chester Hospital.

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During her trial, which began in October 2022, several colleagues testified to witnessing unusual behavior from the former nurse.

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“Well, ladies and gentlemen, that in a nutshell is your task in this case,” prosecutor Nick Johnson told the jury when hepresented the evidencein February 2023. “Whether or not she did these dreadful things is the decision you will have to make when you have heard all the evidence.”

“We used to have raw sewage coming out of the sinks [and] coming out on the floor in nursery one,” she alleged, also claiming that staff being unable to wash their hands could be “a contributory issue.”

Jones added that her “thoughts are with families of the victims who may never have closure, but who now have answers to questions which had troubled them for years.”

source: people.com