Unseen footage of serial baby killer Lucy Letby being arrested in her bed will be aired as part of a new Netflix documentary into her case.
The film, which will focus on the investigation into her crimes, will also include clips of the 36-year-old former neo-natal nurse’s police interviews, testimony from senior detectives and an interview with the mother of one of her victims.
It is the first time a family member involved in the prosecution has spoken in a television documentary.
In a trailer for the programme, entitled Investigation of Lucy Letby, which was released today, Letby is seen in bed looking bewildered as a police officer explains her rights and arrests her.
The bodycam footage, filmed during Letby’s first dawn arrest, in July 2018, also shows her being led out of her semi-detached home, in the Blacon suburb of Chester, still dressed in her pink pyjamas and grey fleece dressing gown.
She tells the Cheshire Constabulary officers: ‘Don’t look, just go in.’
In another clip, Letby can be seen crying as she is placed in handcuffs and kissing one of her beloved cats goodbye before she is led away.
Letby’s trial heard that she was devastated when her two pets, Tigger and Smudge, had to be re-homed when she was eventually charged with killing and harming children, in November 2020.
Lucy Letby in bed looking bewildered as a police officer explains her rights and arrests her
Lucy Letby sits up in her bed as she is arrested by police in the never-before-seen footage
The bodycam footage from Letby’s first arrest in 2018 shows her being led out of her home
‘The Investigation Of Lucy Letby’ will release globally on Netflix on February 4
Other footage of Letby’s police interviews, shown in the trailer, include Detective Sergeant Danielle Stonier asking Letby about the ‘confession’ note officers discovered during a search of her property.
‘You wrote a note saying, ‘I killed them on purpose,’ DS Stonier says.
Letby replies: ‘No comment.’
In other clips of the interviews, Letby says: ‘I felt like I had only ever done my best for those babies…I loved my job (and) it was all spiralling out of control.’
Other footage shows Letby in the back of a police car in handcuffs, being searched by an officer for weapons, alone in a police cell and waiting at a police station reception desk, where suspects are routinely charged.
The film is scheduled to be released globally by the streaming giant on Wednesday February 4, the same day as inquests into the deaths of six of Letby’s victims are due to open.
Other contributors include Dr John Gibbs, one of the doctors at the Countess of Chester Hospital who blew the whistle on Letby, journalist Kim Pilling, of the Press Association, who sat through every day of Letby’s two trials, Dr Dewi Evans, the lead prosecution expert, and Mark McDonald, Letby’s new barrister.
Letby, 36, from Hereford, is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others – one of whom she attacked twice – between June 2015 and June 2016.
etby’s Letby’s trial heard that she was devastated when her two pets, Tigger and Smudge, had to be re-homed when she was charged with murdering babies, in November 2020
Letby was arrested three times and questioned for several days. She has always maintained her innocence
Letby at a police station reception desk, where suspects are usually charged
The ‘confession’ note found at Letby’s home, on which she had written ‘I killed them on purpose’
On Tuesday it was confirmed she will face no further charges over more deaths and collapses of babies that were investigated by police.
Cheshire Constabulary passed additional evidence to prosecutors last year for consideration, linked to eight potential offences of attempted murder and one offence of murder at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Another two allegations of attempted murder and murder were linked to one child at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, where Letby undertook student training placements.
Letby, formerly of Hereford, has always maintained her innocence.
Her new defence team have submitted reports to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the body that investigates potential miscarriages of justice, in the hope her case will be referred back to the Court of Appeal so she can be freed
Lady Justice Thirlwall’s public inquiry report into how Letby was able to commit her crimes on a hospital neonatal unit is due to be published later this year.
‘The Investigation Of Lucy Letby’ will release globally on Netflix on February 4
