Serial killer Lucy Letby made the comment in an email in 2017, more than year before her arrest
Child serial killer nurse Lucy Letby told a colleague more than a year before her arrest she was worried she had "maybe done something wrong" to babies, an inquiry has heard. Letby expressed her concerns in an email to an occupational health nurse in April 2017 and added: "I blame myself".
Ms de Beger said: "I have not been in a WhatsApp group with any other member of staff but I've not supported staff in this situation ever before and I felt at that time that I was the only support that Lucy Letby had. She was going through what I thought at the time was a very distressing situation and it was given to me to support her the best I could, to keep her in work and maintain her mental health. That's why there were so many messages to try to make sure she was OK.
Ms de Beger replied: "'She spoke about being particularly distressed that week because she recalled it was the anniversary of one of the babies' deaths, but then we were having a meeting about managing her feelings and symptoms and talking about coping strategies. It was in the context that she was feeling particularly distressed, but how much more would the parents feel at the loss of their baby. That's how she framed it.
She said: "At that time I believed mediation between the clinicians and Lucy Letby had broken down and she was very distressed about that. There was a plan for her to return to the neonatal unit at the beginning of April but that was postponed and she was very upset about that. I do remember at this time that she was very, very distressed, very confused. So I felt that it was an explanation of all those mixed emotions and that's what I replied to her.
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