Context
Lucy Letby was interviewed by Cheshire Police on three separate occasions: following her first arrest in July 2018, her second arrest in June 2019, and her third arrest and charge in November 2020. A near-verbatim archive of the transcripts is maintained by lucyletbyinnocence.com. This page summarises the recurring themes.
Recurring themes in the interviews
Across all three interview cycles Ms Letby maintained her innocence consistently. She gave extensive clinical context for the events the police put to her, often drawing on handover records and Datix entries. The transcripts show no concession, no partial admission, and no refusal to answer on topics the police raised.
On the notes
In interview, Ms Letby told police that the phrases the prosecution would later describe as a confession were part of a wider set of entries she had written as a way of processing professional distress. She also pointed police to entries on the same pages in which she wrote “I haven’t done anything wrong” and “WHY ME?”.
Read alongside
The Post-it notes evidence page, the 2018 arrest entry, the November 2020 charge entry.