Netflix Premieres Lucy Letby Documentary with Unseen Arrest Footage

It will be the first time that a family member involved in the prosecution has spoken in a documentary. Letby, 36, was convicted at Manchester crown court in 2023 of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others between June 2015 and June 2016. She was arrested multiple times over the course of the police investigation. A trailer for the film includes new footage of police entering Letby’s bedroom to inform her that she is being arrested for murder and attempted murder. She is then led outside to a police car in her dressing gown. “Don’t look, just go in,” she is captured telling onlookers on police bodycam footage. Detectives are shown confronting Letby with evidence during an interview. “You wrote a note saying ‘I killed them on purpose’.” She responded: “No comment.” Elsewhere during the interview she is shown telling police: “I felt like I’d only even done my best for those babies … I loved my job,” as well as: “It was all just spiralling out of control.” • Lucy Letby avoided new charges ‘over fears convictions would be challenged’ Letby’s conviction has been the subject of much debate and Netflix promised that its film would offer a balanced view with a range of experts and lawyers from both sides providing evidence. The 90-minute documentary is being produced by ITN Productions after it secured access to Cheshire police and the Crown Prosecution Service almost three years ago. It is being directed by Dominic Sivyer who has a track record of working on films about sensitive subjects. These include the BBC1 documentaries Grenfell and Granddad, Dementia and Me, and the feature film Rebel Nun, the story of Sister Helen Prejean, a leading activist for the abolition of the death penalty in America. It is the latest programme about Letby’s crimes after documentaries from ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. • Ex-chief ‘relentlessly bullied’ at Lucy Letby hospital wins £1.4m payout This week the CPS ruled that Letby, who is serving 15 whole-life prison terms, would face no charges on 11 new allegations of infant murders and attempted murders due to insufficient police evidence. Cheshire police passed additional evidence to prosecutors last year for consideration, linked to eight potential offences of attempted murder and one offence of murder at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Another two allegations of attempted murder and murder were linked to one child at Liverpool Women’s Hospital.