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Unmasking Lucy Letby: The Untold Story of the Killer Nurse
ISBN: 9781399625173
The untold story of the killer nurse.
Lucy Letby seems like a totally ordinary young woman: fun-loving and popular. She'd had a happy childhood with devoted parents, and after university she landed her dream job as a nurse looking after sick babies. She even became a poster girl for the hospital where she worked.
And yet today, Lucy Letby is officially the most prolific child killer of the modern era. After one of the longest murder trials in British legal history, Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies, and attempting to murder a further seven. She is only the fourth British woman ever to receive a whole life prison sentence. Still only in her early thirties, she will die in prison. But although Letby's journey from obscurity to infamy has made headlines across the world, very little is known about her. Meanwhile, her convictions have attracted unprecedented controversy with a number of critics arguing that this ordinary English nurse may in fact be innocent.
So who is the real Lucy Letby? What was she like according to those who knew her best? What happened at the hospital where she worked and what convinced senior medics that she was killing desperately vulnerable premature babies? And why did it take so long for the police to be called in to investigate? Drawing on interviews with those most intimately connected to this tragic story, as well as exclusive sources and documents, these are the questions that award-winning journalists Jonathan Coffey and Judith Moritz set out to answer.
Whilst Letby lost her fight for an appeal, she has maintained her innocence - and no one saw the nurse harming a baby - which is part of the reason this case has become so controversial. Could Lucy Letby be the victim of a miscarriage of justice, as her supporters believe, or is she the calculating killer that the jury decided she was? This book will tackle these questions head-on and give readers an unrivalled insight into one of the most troubling and divisive murder cases in living memory.
400 pages.
€ 18.75
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Date of Publication: 24/10/2024
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