Letby told colleague of 'distress'

CHILD serial killer nurse Lucy Letby told a colleague more than a year before her arrest she was worried she had "maybe done something wrong" to babies, an inquiry has heard.

Letby expressed her concerns in an email to an occupational health nurse in April 2017 and added: "I blame myself".

Kathyrn de Beger told the Thirlwall Inquiry into events surrounding the crimes of Letby that bosses at the Countess of Chester Hospital gave her the task of supporting the nurse's mental health and wellbeing following her removal from the neonatal unit in July 2016.

She said she was initially informed that Letby had been redeployed for training purposes amid a probe into an increased mortality rate on the unit but later learned she was suspected of causing harm to patients.