Moment Lucy Letby's mother wails and pleads with police not to take her daughter away in new Netflix documentary
This is the moment Lucy Letby's mother wails and sobs as her daughter is arrested by police at her childhood home.Susan Letby, 65, can be heard crying and pleading: 'Please, no, not again, no,' as officers from Cheshire Constabulary arrive at dawn to take the former children's nurse away.The extraordinary police bodycam footage features in a new Netflix documentary out today.It shows officers walking up to the semi-detached property, in Hereford, where Mrs Letby, and her husband, John, 80, have lived for more than four decades, before going inside and waking up their only child.Letby, 36, who had been asleep in her childhood bedroom - which is decorated with fairy lights, snow globe ornaments and affirmation trinkets - appears stunned as a detective tells her she is being arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder for a second time.The video shows the convicted child killer being led downstairs and asking to say goodbye to one of her beloved cats, who she kisses, before saying to her parents: 'You know I didn't do it?' They reply: 'We know that.'A tearful Letby then tells her sobbing mother 'it's alright,' before adding: 'Just go in mum, don't look mum, just go, just go in,' as she is led in handcuffs to a waiting police car, before being driven 130 miles back to Cheshire for questioning.On Sunday Letby's parents criticised the documentary as a 'complete invasion of privacy' and claimed they will not watch the film because 'it would likely kill us if we did.'
Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill seven more The Netflix programme shows officers arriving at Letby's family home and arresting her Letby in Hereford, where she was staying with her parents, as she is arrested in June 2019 Police at the home in June 2019 after entering Letby's bedroom Letby holds her cat during the arrest at her parents' home in Hereford The Netflix programme shows officers arriving at Letby's family home in Hereford The trial heard Letby was devastated when her pets had to be rehomed when she was charged Bodycam footage from Letby's second arrest shows her being led out of her parents' homeThe 90-minute programme, entitled The Investigation of Lucy Letby, features extensive footage of all three of Letby's arrests, including bodycam video of her breaking down in tears and asking officers if they are going to search her property when she was arrested at her home, in Blacon, Chester, for the first time, in July 2018.The documentary also reveals that Letby contacted the senior investigating officer investigating the spike in baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital herself in April 2018 - three months before she was first detained - to ask when she could be interviewed.By then she already knew that her colleagues on the neo-natal unit were being questioned by officers and wanted to 'alleviate her anxieties,' she said.Detective Superintendent Paul Hughes tells the documentary that Letby emailed him directly, from her own NHS e-mail, quoting the name of the investigation – Operation Hummingbird – which was not generally in the public domain.'She wanted to know when we were going to speak to her,' he tells the programme. 'I found it interesting, I thought maybe she has got something to tell us.'In the email, sent around April 2018, Letby asked the senior policeman about 'time frames' and appeared to anticipate that she would need to 'manage' time off work to speak to officers. 'It would also be beneficial for me to be able to share these potential timeframes with my manager at work, as colleagues within my area of redeployment do not know my circumstances, or that I will be part of the investigation and a message within the team will need to be managed to account for my time off,' she wrote.Her email ended: 'I would be very grateful for any information you can offer to help alleviate my anxieties.'Senior managers had moved Letby from the neo-natal unit into an administration role at the hospital two years earlier, in July 2016, following doctors' concerns. Letby's parents, John and Susan Letby, at Manchester Crown Court in 2023 during the trial Detective Superintendent Paul Hughes received an email from Letby three months before her formal arrest, in July 2018But the public inquiry investigating Letby's crimes heard that few of her nursing colleagues were told the exact reason for her re-deployment – that she was suspected of harming and killing babies in her care.The documentary, made by ITN Productions, charts the story of 'Zoe', a full-term baby girl, whose name has been changed for legal reasons. She was the third child to be murdered in a fortnight, in June 2015.Speaking for the first time, Zoe's mother explains the 'panic, disbelief and confusion' she and her husband felt after their daughter died unexpectedly soon after birth, and how she felt relieved' but 'instantly broken' when Letby was convicted of murdering her with an injection of air, following a ten-month trial, in August 2023.The mother, whose identity has been digitally disguised to protect her anonymity, also hits out at the 'disgusting' attempts by campaigners, including Tory MP David Davis, to try to free Letby.She reveals that she wasn't warned that her daughter's case was going to be discussed at a press conference held by the child killer's legal team last year, during which they claimed her victims died of natural causes or poor care, not foul play.Mr Davis opened the event by introducing Dr Shoo Lee, a Canadian neonatologist, as 'the star of today's show.'The mother said: 'This is not a show, there is no star, this is nothing to smile about. The audacity from a politician to introduce someone like this, it is disgusting.'The programme also features clips from Letby's police interviews, which show her calmly and knowledgably answering officers' questions about medical processes, but then clamming up and claiming not to remember details about her whereabouts when individual babies collapsed.Despite being presented with six pages of Zoe's medical notes, showing she had repeatedly signed for medication, and text messages she'd written to colleagues discussing how she saw 'parents screaming' following the tot's death, Letby claimed she couldn't remember anything about her. Lucy Letby during her first arrest. Her parents have claimed police footage, shown in a new Netflix documentary, is a 'complete invasion of privacy' Letby was jailed for life in August 2023 and later handed 15 whole life terms, meaning she will never be eligible for parole 'The Investigation Of Lucy Letby' was released globally on Netflix todayShe also had no explanation for why she searched for Zoe's parents on Facebook three days after her death or for why none of the 887 babies admitted to the neo-natal intensive care unit following her re-deployment had since died or deteriorated unexpectedly. Letby, 36, is serving a record 15 whole life terms after being convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more – one of whom she attacked twice – at the Countess of Chester Hospital, between June 2015 and June 2016.But since being found guilty, questions have been raised about the safety of the convictions and the film also includes an interview with a nurse who studied at university with Letby, who believes her friend is 'completely innocent.'The woman, known only as Maisie, breaks down in the programme as she reads a letter Letby sent from jail.In the handwritten note, Letby complains about being a 'terrible mummy' to her cats, Tigger and Smudge, and adds: 'I'm determined to get through this, I will not give up.'Letby has twice tried and failed to appeal her convictions. In April last year her legal team lodged a file of new 'expert' evidence with the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the body that reviews potential miscarriages of justice, in the hope her case will be referred back to the Court of Appeal a third time.Inquests into the deaths of five of Letby's victims, known as Baby C, E, I, O and P, are scheduled to be opened today. An inquest was previously held into the death of Baby A, in October 2016, while a hearing was previously opened and adjourned into the death of Baby D, in January 2016.'The Investigation Of Lucy Letby' is now available to watch on Netflix
