chapter ten
CHAPTER TEN. LUCY LETBY’S PERSONALITY.
Lucy Letby’s personality does not in any way fit the profile of a serial killer. Here are a few relevant quotes from the book Baby Killer 2. Is Lucy Letby Innocent, by Stu Armstrong. ISBN 9798301688836, printed by Amazon. (I strongly recommend this book!)
Pages 67 to 69:- A nurse who worked with Lucy Letby states:- “Meticulous, and empathetic.” (My highlighting.)
Pages 84 to 88:- Dr Rachel Simmons, who had once worked with Luct Letby states:- “Competent and compassionate. - - - empathetic” (My highlighting.)
Pages 53 to 59:- Forensic psychologist Dr Simon Galloway makes the following comments:- “Healthcare killers tend to have a certain personality profile. Lucy Letby does not fit this profile. Healthcare killers have a clear psychological “driver”. None of these factors are evident in Letby’s case - - - - - her reactions were open - - - and unguarded - - - inconsistent with someone concealing guilt.”
The book Math on Trial – How Numbers Get Used and Abused in The Courtroom, by mathematicians Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez, published by Basic Books, 2003, page 8, comments on the personality of Beverley Allitt, a nurse who actually did kill some babies in a hospital. The book states that “Beverley’s COLDNESS in the face of the death of some of her victims was typical.” (My highlighting.) (My comment:- Lucy Letby seemed always very upset by the deaths of babies in her care.)
Now for some comments from the book Suffer The Little Children: The Lucy Letby Case revisited, by Dr David Holding (who has a Master of Law degree in Medical Law). (I strongly recommend this book!)
Page 87:- “When “lovely Lucy”, as her fellow medics called her was suspended from duty.”
On pages 100 to 104, the author quotes forensic psychiatrist Dr Sohom Das:- “There is no evidence here of mental illness - - - - - - - (regarding) the traits of a psychopath, some of the common ones seem to be missing. - - - not sexually promiscuous - - - nor does she seem to be a generally parasitic and deceptive individual across every aspect of her life - - - there’s no sign that she lies for the sake of it, or that she weaves a fantasy world - - Letby (in the post it notes) repeatedly writes the names of her cats, Trigger and Smudge. - - - - - Nothing about her struck people as strange. She was not aggressive or impulsive, paranoid or cantankerous. Colleagues thought her as friendly and approachable.”
Here are some quotes from the book Lucy is Innocent, by Paul Bamforth, SECOND EDITION, ISBN 9798326484130 available on Amazon. (I strongly recommend this book!)
Pages 309 to 310:- Professor David Wilson, criminologist, Professor Emeritus, specialist in serial killers – states that Letby does not fit the profile of a serial killer. She is very social and socialised, with many friends, and active in many social groups. He suggests that the post-it notes are ”reported speech”.
Page 311:- Various friends state – “kindest person” etc.
Pages 319 to 320:- The police comment on her calmness – emotionless, quiet, controlled – under questioning (with a suggestion that this calmness has a sinister implication).
Page 323:- Allegations against Lucy have been previously explained to her. This causes stress, for which she is now on tranquillisers. (My comment:- Now we see why she is “calm and emotionless”! There is no sinister implication, as suggested by the police.)
Page 401:- The author quotes from a PhD thesis – “Arresting and Convicting the Innocent: the Potential Role of an Inappropriate Emotional Display in the Accused” by Wendy P Heath:- “The lack of appropriate emotion during - - - interrogation may lead investigators to create a mind-set that the suspect is the guilty party.”
I gleaned the following information from the internet:- Lucy Letby adopted rescue cats. To verify this, go to the following U-Tube video:-
Lucy Letby: What The Jury Didn't Know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqe4dEuK128
The following quotes are from the article in The New Yorker (issue for May 20th, 2024) by Rachel Aviv, entitled – A Reporter at Large – Conviction,
Page 34:- A detective with The Cheshire police commented:- “There isn’t really anything we have found in her background that’s anything other than normal.”
Page 46:- Lucy Letby had done Facebook searches for the parents of some of the babies that she was accused of harming. (A sinister interpretation was put on these searches by the prosecution.) However, she had searched for various people 2287 times, and only 31 of these searches were related to these babies. Incidentally, her search history did NOT include searches for air embolism (one of the murder methods that she was accused of).
I will now make my own comments. The methods of murder proposed by the prosecution include as follows:-
(1). Injecting insulin into the baby.
(2). Putting insulin into the baby’s drip feed.
(3). Punching the baby.
(4). Force-feeding the baby with milk.
(5). Injecting air into the baby’s circulatory system so as to cause air embolism.
(6). Injecting air into the baby’s stomach.
(7). Attacking the baby’s internal organs with a sharp implement.
(8). Smothering.
(9). Unspecified tampering with medical equipment.
Any criminologist will tell you that criminals usually have an MO - a modus operandi, a SINGLE method of committing their crimes. A safecracker does not go robbing banks with a sawn off shotgun. He sticks to “cracking” safes. Harold Shipman carried out ALL his murders by injecting with morphine. Similarly, the majority of serial killers have JUST ONE METHOD of killing their victims. I can provide a long list of serial killers and their methods to substantiate this statement. Once a killer has found a method that “works”, he does not go looking for other more exotic methods. The notion that Lucy Letby kept on varying her methods of killing does not fit with the basic facts of criminal psychology. Perhaps fictional criminals, like Moriarty, might vary their methods, to make the book’s narrative more interesting to the reader, but in real life, criminals tend to favour JUST ONE SINGLE METHOD. This is just one further strike against the “Lucy as serial killer” notion.
I would make another point:- When you read Lucy Letby’s WhatsApp messages, they say things like “Looking forward to catch up! x Got magnum prosecco and vodka. Whoop. No disco ball but sure we can manage. x” Lucy also went to salsa dancing classes. Serial killers do not go to salsa dancing classes! They do not say “Whoop” in WhatsApp messages. Also, serial killers do not have cats named “Trigger” and “Smudge”. They do not adopt rescue cats. They do not have teddy bears, and fairy lights in their bedroom. They do not wear polka dot dressing gowns. I am not being facetious here. You can get a general sense of where a person is “coming from” by their activities, and by what they say. The general sense that you get from Lucy Letby’s general behaviour, and activities, and verbal behaviour, and speech patterns are the exact opposite of what you would expect from a serial killer.