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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Josh Halliday North of England correspondent

Lucy Letby: police found note saying ‘I killed them on purpose’, court hears

A sketch of Lucy Letby in the dock at Manchester crown court.
A sketch of Lucy Letby in the dock at Manchester crown court. Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PA

A nurse accused of murdering seven babies in a hospital neonatal unit wrote: “I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough to care for them,” a court has heard.

The trial of Lucy Letby was told on Thursday that police had recovered several handwritten documents from her home after her arrest in July 2018. On one note shown to the jury, headlined “Not good enough,” she wrote: “I will never have children or marry. I will never know what it’s like to have a family” and “I can’t breathe.”

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