‘Lucy Letby stood over our child – then alarms went off as her lung collapsed’: Dad and mom who say their daughter was one of many killer’s first victims recall chilling second they discovered the nurse alone with their new child seconds earlier than she practically died

A mom has described approaching her child’s cot and seeing Lucy Letby standing over it with a ‘clean’ expression on her face after which strolling away earlier than ‘all hell broke free’ when her lung collapsed. 

Mike and Victoria Whitfield’s daughter, Felicity, suffered a catastrophic lung collapse three days after being born prematurely on the Countess of Chester Hospital – the place the  nurse carried out her killing spree – in November 2013.

The couple imagine Felicity was certainly one of Letby’s first victims. She got here so near dying that a chaplain was referred to as to conduct an emergency baptism. She was taken to a close-by hospital and revived, and is now a cheerful and energetic nine-year-old.

Mrs Whitfield was not conscious on the time that the blonde girl standing over her daughter’s cot was Letby till she noticed her picture on the information. The nurse has since been convicted of murdering seven infants and attempting to kill six extra.

Describing the horrific realisation, she advised Good Morning Britain: ‘Once we noticed her image come on the display I felt sick to the abdomen and referred to as Mike and mentioned ”she was the one who was over the cot that evening”.’ 

Mike Whitfield and his spouse Victoria are searching for justice for his or her daughter Felicity (pictured collectively in 2018) and different potential Letby victims

Felicity (pictured on life assist) survived after medical doctors at a second hospital revived her in a process which had been tried twice with out success at Chester

Mrs Whitfield advised Good Morning Britain she was not conscious on the time that the blonde girl standing over her daughter’s cot was Letby till she noticed her picture on the information

Describing the evening itself, Mrs Whitfield recalled the second that she left her hospital room to go to the neonatal unit at 3am within the morning of November 20, 2013.

She mentioned: ‘It was round 3am once I had a mom’s intuition to go and see her. She was doing wonderful within the days earlier than and respiratory nicely for herself. 

‘She was doing so nicely {that a} nurse – who I imagine was Lucy Letby – advised Mike to go house as a result of he was trying so drained. 

‘I went to the ward and as I used to be strolling in the direction of the cot noticed Lucy standing over it. She seemed up at me then walked away. 

‘Then I walked in the direction of the cot and inside what appeared like seconds – though it might have been longer – all of the beepers began going off and all hell broke free.’ 

She continued: ‘I’ve obtained this fixed and everlasting picture in my head of when she was standing over the cot. There was no smile when she seemed up – her face was simply clean, then she walked off. 

‘Then for the whole lot to go loopy is one thing I am unable to get out of my head. 

‘After I noticed her picture on the TV it was that very same stare. It made me sick to suppose it might have been her that did one thing.’

Mr Whitfield mentioned they have been ‘making ready for the worst’ when Felicity was transferred later that morning to Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral. 

 Letby (pictured in a custody picture) went on a killing spree whereas working on the Countess of Chester Hospital

Mrs Whitfield was not conscious on the time that the blonde girl standing over her daughter’s cot was Letby till she noticed her picture on the information 

Felicity (pictured aged 4), who’s now an brisk nine-year-old, got here so near dying {that a} chaplain was referred to as to conduct an emergency baptism

Victoria and Michael Whitfield with their kids (L-R) Felicity, Izabel, Verity and Bailey in 2018

However on the new hospital they have been reassured by a physician that their daughter could be wonderful and to not fear. 

‘It was that reassurance that led us to grasp one thing wasn’t proper on the Countess,’ he mentioned. 

The couple mentioned they didn’t come into contact with Letby once more. 

However following Felicity’s restoration, the couple demanded a gathering with bosses on the Countess. 

‘We have been advised it was simply a kind of issues that generally occurs in untimely infants,’ Mrs Whitfield mentioned. 

Medical notes confirmed that Letby had taken care of Felicity earlier than she was transferred to Arrowe Park. 

After Letby was arrested, the mother and father began to suppose extra about their daughter’s brush with dying and now need her case to be reexamined. 

Cheshire Police restricted their investigation to the deaths of 17 infants and 15 non-fatal collapses on the hospital’s neonatal unit between March 2015 and July 2016 – two years after Felicity virtually died.

Police are actually reviewing the care of 4,000 infants Letby might have come into contact with throughout a spell on the Countess of Chester Hospital from January 2012 to the tip of June 2016 and two work placements at Liverpool Girls’s Hospital in 2012 and 2015.

Pictured is the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit the place Letby went on a killing spree

Cheshire police have mentioned that there was ‘nothing untoward established’ in Felicity’s case however the place might be assessed with new info.

Letby is Britain’s most prolific youngster serial killer of recent occasions and was sentenced to an unprecedented 14 complete life orders on Monday. 

Bosses on the Countess of Chester Hospital have been closely criticised for failing to cease her killing spree. 

A minimum of two infants died and extra have been harmed as a result of executives refused to hear or to imagine a member of workers was accountable. 

Yesterday, senior marketing consultant Dr Stephen Brearey – who tried to blow the whistle on Letby –  referred to as for regulation of NHS executives to make them accountable for his or her choices.

And final evening the mother and father whose new child son was killed and his twin poisoned by Letby accused the hospital of ‘a complete fob-off’ once they pleaded for solutions.

Solicitor Richard Scorer, of regulation agency Slater and Gordon which represents the mother and father of Little one E and Little one F, advised the Guardian the couple felt they’d did not obtain a correct response to their considerations.

A cot on the neonatal ward on the Countess of Chester Hospital