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🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to Current Affairs, our show about the stories of love gone fatally wrong |
0:12.6 | that are in the news right now. |
0:14.9 | Today, we kick off with a number of updates and cases that we've been following, sometimes |
0:19.2 | for a very long time. |
0:21.5 | Easily one of the most horrifying cases of the last few years was that of Lucy Letby. |
0:26.5 | Letby was a former neonatal nurse who was accused of having killed seven babies and attempted |
0:31.6 | to kill six more in 2015 and 2016. |
0:35.8 | The 33-year-old Letby had been on trial for the past 10 months in Manchester Crown Court |
0:40.4 | in the UK. |
0:41.6 | She had pleaded not guilty to all of the charges, but the evidence was pretty damning, such |
0:45.5 | as Post-It's found in her house, where she had written that she was evil and that she |
0:49.7 | had killed them on purpose. |
0:51.8 | On Friday, Letby was found guilty on 14 of 22 possible counts. |
0:56.6 | In a statement following the trial, Pascal Jones of the prosecution said, Lucy Letby |
1:01.5 | was entrusted to protect some of the most vulnerable babies. |
1:05.3 | Little did those working alongside her know that there was a murderer in their midst. |
1:09.8 | In her hands, innocuous substances like air, milk, fluids, or medication like insulin |
1:15.9 | would become lethal. |
1:17.4 | She perverted her learning and weaponized her craft to inflict harm, grief, and death. |
1:22.4 | Time and again, she harmed babies in an environment which should have been safe for them and their |
1:27.4 | families. |
1:28.4 | Parents were exposed to her morbid curiosity and her fake compassion. |
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