Lucy Letby's Notes: Confession or Breakdown? (Pt. 3)

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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