The Daily Telegraph - Saturday
Letby pictured with baby who died
Image of serial killer nurse with Emily Morris’s son Alvin was found on CD of photos taken at baptism
A MOTHER who fears that Lucy Letby may have killed her baby son has identified the nurse in a photograph from his Christening, touching the blankets in his pram as he is held above it.
Emily Morris’s son Alvin was baptised at the Countess of Chester Hospital in February 2013, where he was being cared for in the neonatal unit. Days later he died, at one month old.
Ms Morris, 35, from Deeside, discovered the photograph, which shows Alvin in his Christening robes, among her belongings this week.
The Daily Telegraph previously revealed Ms Morris’s fears that Letby, who looked after her son in his last 24 hours, was involved in his death.
The bereaved mother told The Daily
Telegraph that when she found the picture: “I was shocked, it just is shocking.”
She added: “It’s really upsetting how a person like that could be right next to your son, and could have harmed him. He’s only a little baby that’s just come into the world.”
The picture was on a CD of photographs taken to commemorate Alvin’s baptism, which Ms Morris had not looked at until Thursday. Last month, Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others. In an interview last week, Ms Morris said she felt “sick” to discover what appeared to be Letby’s writing in Alvin’s Christening book.
The new photo shows that at the time of the Christening, Ms Morris’ son was well enough to be taken around the hospital in a pram, only receiving oxygen through a nasal cannula. Days later, her baby son was dead.
“First the Christening book, and now this picture. It’s a bit weird. He was in her care and then he suddenly died. It’s suspicious,” said Ms Morris.
She wants this evidence to be handed to the police, but said that she has not been contacted by Cheshire Constabulary since 2018, when officers investigating Letby had told her they couldn’t take her son’s case any further.
She said: “I think they should look at this picture. I think it would actually tell them something, that there’s more to this story … We are finding all this evidence now.”
Alvin was born three weeks early in January 2013 with muscular dystrophy (MD), which is an inherited genetic condition that causes muscles to weaken progressively. While MD can prove fatal, many people with the condition live into their 20s and 30s.
Ms Morris and her partner Mark Lewis, 39, said that hospital staff told them that Alvin’s condition was “mild” and that he had been progressing well on the unit.
The mother had previously told The
Daily Telegraph that Letby was in the room with Alvin on the day he died.