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Lucy Letby followers sending Xmas playing cards to let her to know they’re ‘pondering of her’

Lucy Letby’s followers have been sending chilling letters of consolation to her in jail, it has been revealed. The twisted former nurse was discovered responsible of killing seven infants and trying to kill six others in August.

The sadistic serial killer used quite a lot of strategies to hurt a complete of 13 infants throughout a one-year interval whereas she labored on the neonatal ward on the Countess of Chester Hospital in Manchester between 2015 and 2016.

In August, Letby, who refused to attend court docket for her sentence, was given life imprisonment with a whole-life time period. But throughout her time in jail twisted followers have been reaching out to the assassin providing their help, and telling her they’re “thinking of her”.

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During Letby’s trial, which started in October final 12 months, Manchester Crown Court heard how docs on the hospital started to note a big rise within the variety of infants who had been dying or had been unexpectedly collapsing.

When they had been unable to discover a medical rationalization, police had been alerted and an investigation adopted. Letby, now aged 33, was first arrested in July 2018 and subsequently charged in November 2020.



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Letby was first arrested in July 2018

Letby has garnered a small, loyal following of followers who bizarrely preserve her innocence on a twisted public Facebook group, Mail Online revealed. Earlier this 12 months Daily Star reported how individuals had been sending, or pondering of sending, supportive letters to her.

Now these teams are calling on individuals to ship her supportive letters and Christmas playing cards as she approaches her first Christmas since being locked up for all times. A member of the Nurse Lucy Letby Group, which anybody can view, stated: “Christmas for our Lucy will be a very sentimental time. You who care about her may want to send her a Christmas Card.”

It additionally stated “sadly she is very isolated” because it urged individuals to succeed in out and let her know she’s of their ideas. “A message will let her know that there are some of us who are thinking of her and she is not forgotten,” the submit learn.



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Police body-camera video displaying Letby being arrested in 2018

Letby denied all of the offences and formally lodged an attraction in opposition to her convictions on the Court of Appeal in September. Several controversial theories about Letby have been shared on the social media group, with some claiming she is harmless.

But some social media customers have been left livid at the truth that letters are being despatched to her. One stated: “Are you lot for real? Why would you send a letter to someone who killed seven babies?” Another fuming particular person added: “Take time out to write a letter to a child serial murderer… that’s the one.”

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