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🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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On 21 August 2023, 33-year-old nurse Lucy Letby was handed a whole-of-life order for the murder of seven babies, and the attempted murder of six more. She is only the fourth woman in British history to receive the sentence.
And now this seemingly young, meek, slightly goofy, “vanilla” girl – whose bedroom was filled with stuffed animals – is now Britain’s most prolific child serial killer.
So what really happened? How was she allowed to kill so many? Why did she do it? And how was she eventually caught?
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0:46.2 | And Saruti, I'm Hannah and welcome to Redhanded where we are tired. |
0:50.7 | Yeah, once again, chosen to make our lives more difficult than it needs to be. |
0:54.8 | Yeah, it was rough. Yesterday, Monday morning, we woke up and Hannah had some sort of horrible |
1:00.9 | vomiting virus. I hope you don't mind me telling the people. I'll stop. |
1:05.2 | We haven't eaten anything since Sunday afternoon and I'm too scared to. |
1:08.6 | Oh no. Well, let's get through this horrific case and if Hannah is sick, |
1:14.8 | then it's a multitude of reasons why. So woke up yesterday morning and obviously we knew what's |
1:21.0 | going on with Lucy Letby. We have previously covered it as a Patreon bonus episode while the |
1:26.4 | travel stump, but deliberations were still coming. Yeah. And we wanted to sort of talk about it. |
1:31.0 | So we did it over there. This is not that episode. This is a brand new episode that was written. |
1:36.8 | Yesterday, it isn't now my personal best of my fastest ever written episode because I did it |
1:42.3 | in a day. Good for you. And then I went and sat in the bath because I have stomach cramps. |
1:48.7 | So lots of oversharing, lots of information here that you guys probably don't need to know, |
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1:57.6 | like bringing you as quickly as humanly possible, an episode on the case of Lucy Letby. |
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