Standing over the crib, the kindly blonde nurse, Lucy Letby, beamed down at the tiny baby. To her horror though, the day-old twin boy, born six weeks premature, stopped breathing.
As doctors and Lucy fought desperately to resuscitate the little boy, his mother sobbed, ‘Please don’t let my baby die.’ But tragically he passed away.
Lucy loved her job in the hospital neonatal ward caring for the most vulnerable babies.
She’d joined the hospital in 2012 and worked her way up, even mentoring other nurses.
Without a family of her own, she