DR SOHOM DAS: Those scribbled notes are, quite simply, a glimpse into Lucy Letby's psyche. As a forensic psychiatrist, it's my job to treat and rehabilitate what some call the 'criminally insane'.
is ever likely to come to a confession of her depraved thoughts and intentions are the Post-it notes crammed with her minute scrawls.were left for police to find in her semi-detached house in Westbourne Road, Chester, in an oblique but deliberate attempt to bring her spree of killing to an end.
In my career, I have examined four women who murdered babies. All of them were suffering from psychotic delusions so severe that their grip on reality had broken.Advertisement Two overlapping reasons combine to explain such outbursts. The first, though this in no way diminishes the wickedness of her actions, is a modicum of awareness that what she has done is too terrible to imagine.A tiny part of her, though it conflicted with what, appears to be feeling guilt. Perhaps that is why the words are squeezed on to such small pieces of paper: As well as self-pity, they represent her conscience – and that was very limited in scope and size.
The words that run into each other, the repeated loops and letters, the 'HELP' and 'HATE' overlaid in heavy black writing, and the overall intensity are all signs of a mind in turmoilThe second possible explanation is the obvious signs of depression and anxiety in these frantic scribblings.
To colleagues at the hospital, she didn't seem unduly stressed in her high-pressure role of supposedly caring for babies on the precipice of death. Dr Das believes Letby's true motivations to kill are power, control and the thrill of being around the grieving process Of course, she lied consistently to police and throughout her trial, but there was a rational reason for that – she was trying to hide her crimes. There's no sign in these notes that she lies for the sake of it, or that she weaves a fantasy world.We call that 'cognitive empathy', knowing when other people are suffering. But clearly she lacks all 'emotive empathy' and cannot feel what others are feeling.I've spent hours trying to understand Letby's motives.
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