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There's this one (Janet Cox is apparently the friend who attended court)I've now read quite a few of their testimonies given from behind their screens because I wanted to see if her main friends on the NNU gave any hint of their current stance. ( the ones who appear in texts, blowing smoke about how 'fab' she was and how there was ' a witchhunt' etc
I did find one who said she'd had sleepless nights for a long time thereafter and had been racking her brains to try and recall details. Maybe I missed some but am still at one.
The nurses suffering from PTSD after befriending Lucy Letby.
Many of the neonatal nurse's former colleagues are still struggling to accept the full extent of her crimes.
Lucy Letby’s colleagues have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after working with and befriending Britain’s worst baby killer.
The small neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester, where the murders took place, consisted of just 13 cots and was staffed by a close-knit group of 40 nurses.
It was described as a “quiet, sterile place” covered with wires and tubing and filled with the usually monotonous beeping of incubators and monitors.
The room where the most vulnerable babies were cared for and where the majority of the attacks occurred did not have a single window.
The environment was intense and the relationships staff members developed were equally so, with nurses on the unit forming long-lasting relationships.
“We are a very close group. It has helped”, one nursing assistant who worked alongside Letby and still works at the hospital told the Telegraph.
Other staff members described the nurses on the unit as being like a “family”.
At 6am on July 3, 2018, the monotonous beeping and the sterile quiet of the unit were shattered by the unimaginable; the arrest of nurse Letby in a dawn raid at her newly bought home for the most incomprehensible of crimes.
Five years later, many of Letby’s former colleagues are still struggling to come to terms with the impact of that moment.
In the weeks before Letby was convicted of the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of a further six, the Telegraph reached out to her former colleagues.
None of the nurses the Telegraph approached were willing to discuss, in detail, their association with Letby during her time at the hospital.
When asked why the group continued to remain silent, one senior nurse replied: “It’s too traumatising. We just can’t talk about it.”
Another added: “I know there are people who still want answers. But we still don’t know how this is going to end.”
It is understood that at least three colleagues of Letby have been diagnosed with PTSD, and a number of others suffer from severe depression and anxiety.
Some have left the country, others have left nursing, but the majority remain living and working in the area.
Amongst the neonatal unit staff, there were differing opinions, pre-verdict, as to the full extent of Letby’s offending.
One colleague, Janet Cox, has remained supportive of Letby throughout and is believed to have attended the trial on a number of occasions alongside the murderer’s parents.
“She’s her best friend,” a man at Ms Cox’s home said when asked about the pair’s relationship.
The nurses suffering from PTSD after befriending Lucy Letby
Many of the neonatal nurse's former colleagues are still struggling to come to terms with the full extent of her crimes
www.telegraph.co.uk