[Margaret Pilkington]

Taddy for a quarter of a century(doesn’t that sound a long time) I worked in Women’s health.
I supported women and families who lost babies. Not just those who miscarried, but those who had stillborn babies.
When I first started these babies were treated as clinical waste…incinerated.
Although there were stories (I have no idea if they were true) that some babes were buried by undertakers with an adult to accompany them to wherever they were going.
I worked with other people to get these babies to be treated as babies….and cremated with a celebrant present to say something over their small bodies.
A local funeral company were very good and they would cremate the older babies (like the son you lost Taddy) in a proper ceremony with family present…and they did this at no cost to the parents.

The loss of a baby never leaves you…EVER.

I cannot account for what went on in Lucy Letbys head.
I do not understand how someone who was in such a privileged position, could abuse that position.

I suspect that this woman is in the grip of Munchausens by Proxy…..this is a recognised mental condition.
It does not excuse or absolve her of the actions….nor does it go any way to consoling the parents of the babies she murdered so callously…there is NO consolation for these parents.
They will always be traumatised by the loss of their babies in such terrible circumstances.

It is also such a shame that such a clever young woman chose to use her talents for evil instead of good.
She has to live with her actions for the next four or five decades in prison.

The other victims in this sorry story are her parents. They are guilty of nothing yet their lives will surely be blighted by the actions of their daughter…they can never escape the awful scrutiny of their lives.

Sad, sad, sad!