Cheshire Constabulary
The British nurse accused of murdering seven infants in her hospital’s neonatal unit texted a friend that she had a “mini meltdown … about what’s happened at work,” according to prosecutors.
“Haha,” she allegedly wrote. “Nodding off in cinema isn’t a good look, I had a mini meltdown last night about what’s happened at work…I just need some time off with mum and dad.”
Her trial has garnered international attention.
Prosecutors said that she also wrote that she was “evil” and “killed them on purpose.”
While some notes read that she’s a “horrible evil person” who isn’t “good enough,” others included what prosecutor Nick Johnson told the court was “protestations of innocence.” For instance, one includes the phrase “I haven’t done anything wrong and they have no evidence so why have I had to hide away?”
Johnson told jurors that the child deaths at the hospital’s neonatal unit were statisticallycomparable to other unitsin the U.K. before January 2015, reportedThe Independent.
But, according to Johnson, this drastically changed over the next 18 months, during which the hospital saw a spike in the deaths of babies.
“It is a hospital like so many others in the U.K. but unlike many other hospitals in the U.K., and unlike many other neonatal units in the U.K., within the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital a poisoner was at work,” Johnson added, per the outlet.
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“The collapses of all 17 children concerned were not ‘naturally occurring tragedies,'” Johnson continued. “They were all the work, we say, of the woman in the dock, who we say was the constant, malevolent presence when things took a turn for the worse for these 17 children.”
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She “was subsequently bailed pending further enquiries,” added the release.
One year later she was rearrested “on suspicion of murder in relation to the deaths of 8 babies and the attempted murder of 6 babies,” as well as “the attempted murder of three additional babies,” Cheshire Police continued.
source: people.com
