Lucy Letby’s parents blast new Netflix documentary as ‘complete invasion of privacy’ and accuse lead detective of ‘grudge’ against them in first public comments since nurse was jailed

A Netflix documentary featuring police footage of Lucy Letby being arrested in her pajamas has been condemned as a ‘complete invasion of privacy’ by her parents.

Speaking publicly for the first time since their daughter was sentenced to life imprisonment in August 2023, Susan and John Letby also said the police chief investigating the infant deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital “appeared to have a deep-seated hatred” for them.

The remarks were made ahead of the release on Wednesday of the feature-length documentary, which is expected to show more unreleased footage of Letby during their arrest.

The revelation comes as doubts are growing among eminent experts about the security of the case against Letby, 36, who was convicted of killing seven babies in hospital and attempting to kill seven others between 2015 and 2016.

Over the past 18 months, The Mail on Sunday has highlighted how he was found guilty based on questionable statistical probabilities and controversial theories about how he might have harmed children.

The jury reached the verdict despite there being no forensic or CCTV evidence and no convincing reasoning.

The prosecution’s chief expert witness, Dr. The apparent contradictions in the testimony of Dewi Evans (75) came under special scrutiny.

Cheshire Constabulary presented further evidence to prosecutors last year on eight potential attempted murder charges and a hospital murder charge.

Lucy Letby during her arrest. Police footage of Letby being arrested in her pajamas shown in new Netflix documentary is a ‘complete invasion of privacy’, family claims

But after reviewing the files, the CPS confirmed last month that Letby would not face any further charges. His defense team argues this is because a new trial would reveal flaws in his original convictions.

The trailer for the Netflix show shows officers arriving at the family home in Hereford, where the nurse was staying with her family, in June 2019 and entering her bedroom.

He is seen sitting on the bed looking confused as police say they arrested him on suspicion of murder and attempted murder. He is then taken away in his dressing gown.

The Letbys told the Sunday Times they would not watch the documentary because “it would probably kill us if we did”. They said in a statement: ‘We always imagined that if something life-changing happened to you the next day, you would somehow have a premonition that something was about to happen.

‘We can honestly say that on the eve of the three arrests we had no idea they were coming.’

His family questioned why police decided to release the footage, saying: ‘Why? [investigating officer Detective Superintendent] Paul Hughes, with whom we have always had full cooperation, allowed himself to show the world what happened in our house that morning, but Netflix didn’t even have the decency to tell us about it?

The trailer for the Netflix show shows officers arriving at Letby’s family home in Hereford, where she was staying with her family, in June 2019 and entering her bedroom. Police later arrested him on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.

Letby was sentenced to life imprisonment in August 2023 for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of seven others between 2015 and 2016.

Netflix’s Lucy Letby documentary will be released next week

‘He seems to have a deep hatred for us.’

The couple revealed they had co-operated with police in March 2017 and that hospital doctors Stephen Brearey and Ravi Jayaram, who encouraged the police investigation into Letby at a time when the hospital was struggling to keep premature babies alive, had tried to make their daughter a ‘scapegoat’ for the failures.

Dame Esther Rantzen, former presenter of the BBC consumer program That’s Life!, told the Sunday Times the case should be re-examined.

Letby’s case is currently being considered by the Criminal Cases Review Commission.