The judge's sentencing remarks here cover everything that she was found to have done and goes into detail how she killed those babies and tried to harm and kill the others: www.spectator.co.uk/article/read-the-king-v-lucy-letby-sentencing-remarks-in-full/
From what I've read in the number of articles on Letby these past few days, I've discovered that:
- her mother was 30 when she had Letby while her father was 44
- that her mother had a difficult birth
- her parents have always been over involved in her life
- her parents doted on Letby
- they took her on holidays every year
- they bought the house Letby lived in
- they were very unhappy when Letby moved far away from them and they wanted to move closer to her but Letby felt her parents were overbearing and liked the distance
From the above, and from other articles I've read (mostly the Guardian for no reason), I get the sense that Letby's parents have smothered her since she was little and that their over-involvement in her life and need to catch her every time before she falls and lay cotton wool wherever she walks has damaged her, much in the same way people say some parents of Millennials have bred a generation of people with deeply low-self esteem and self loathing.
I think her parents' behavior can be seen in the way she can do no wrong in their eyes. While I understand most parents will support their children, the facts of this case are chilling and the way her parents moved to Manchester to attend the trial daily and the way Letby's father got involved to ensure that Stephen Brearey and the other consultants apologised to Letby was absolutely bonkers.
Could it be that Letby herself was a NICU baby and this is the link? I just find it odd that she wanted passionately to be a nurse since she was a child only to end up doing what she has done. The way that she lit up when babies had complications or, in one instance, when Letby discovered a mother was a haemophiliac m, was odd and only seemed to activate the sadist in her. I sense she has had such an unhappy life at the hands of her parents that it has left her feeling so useless, non-descript and unremarkable, that the only way she could gain attention was to create situations where she could become the savior or be perceived in a certain way. I read that several years ago she was literally the poster girl for sone charity at the hospital. I think she liked that kind of attention.
The description of how calculating she was and the truly sadistic things she did are sickening. I can't believe she would write sympathy cards for the parents of the babies she'd murdered and later would search for them on Facebook(?!?) Perhaps so she could relish and keep tabs on their grief. How messed up?
There's also been suggestions by criminal psychologists that Letby had a god complex: enjoying being able to choose who would live or die, as well as being envious of the happy families she came across in the ward because of her own inadequacies.
Much like Jeff Dahmer's dad, I think her parents have created a monster which is a shame because they love her so much and have done the best for her. Letby is clearly damaged in some way