Lucy Letby's Notes: Confession or Breakdown? (Pt. 3)
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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I AM EVIL I DID THIS. Those words, written on a green Post-It note in Lucy Letby's handwriting, were the first piece of evidence shown to jurors. The prosecution called them a confession. The defense called them the scrawl of a woman in psychological collapse. The jury looked at those words for ten months. The debate over what they mean has lasted years.
Lucy Letby's trial at Manchester Crown Court was built entirely on circumstantial evidence. A staffing chart placing her at every incident. Medical expert testimony interpreting clinical events as deliberate harm. Confidential hospital documents found at her home. And the handwritten notes, which also contained phrases like I haven't done anything wrong, repeated pleas for help, and references to her family and pets.
Reporting after the trial revealed the notes were allegedly written on a counselor's advice as a therapeutic exercise during a period when Letby had been removed from clinical duties and was under internal investigation. That context was reportedly not presented to the jury.
The defense did not call its own medical expert. The jury convicted on most counts but deadlocked on six. Letby received fourteen whole-life orders, increased to fifteen after a 2024 retrial.
Part three of five. The trial evidence in full. The decisions that shaped the verdict. And the question of whether the jury was given everything it needed to decide.
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| 1:07.9 | Police officers searching a three-bedroom home on Westbourne Road in Chester, open a chest of drawers and find a 2016 diary. |
| 1:18.7 | Inside tucked between the pages is a green post-it note written in capital letters and handwriting of the woman who lives there. |
| 1:27.7 | It says, I am evil. |
| 1:30.9 | I did this. |
| 1:32.6 | Below that, in smaller script, I killed them on purpose because I am not a good enough to care for them. |
| 1:40.7 | I am a horrible evil person. |
| 1:43.9 | The prosecution would call that a confession. |
| 1:46.2 | The defense would call it the anguished scrawl of a woman in psychological collapse. |
| 1:51.5 | A jury would see that post-it note displayed on courtroom screens on the first day of a trial that lasted 10 months. |
| 1:58.2 | And whatever else you believe about the case of Lucy Leppie, whatever conclusions you draw from the medical evidence or the statistical debate or the expert panels that came later, those words exist. |
| 2:10.5 | They were written in her handwriting. |
| 2:12.1 | And the question of what they actually mean sits at the precise center of one of the most controversial criminal |
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