"Heartbreaking Moment: Lucy Letby's Mother Pleads with Police, 'Please No, Not Again,' as Nurse Urges, 'Don't Look' During Arrest"

THIS is the moment Lucy Letby’s mum screams “no, not again” at police – before the nurse calmly tells her mum to look away during her arrest.

In the previously unseen clip, Susan Letby can be heard begging officers not to take away her daughter as she is arrested for the second time.

Letby remains speechless as she sits up in her bed in a blue dressing gownCredit: Netflix The nurse is shown looking startled as she is informed she is being arrestedCredit: Netflix She asks cops if she can see her cat, before picking it up and cuddling itCredit: Netflix

Bodycam footage shows cops swarming Letby’s parent’s home in Hereford on June 10, 2019.

Detective Superintendent Simon Blackwell, from Cheshire Police, says “we need to speak to you”, before being let in by John Letby.

In other bombshells from Netflix’s documentary…

• A doctor who helped convict Letby revealed his doubt
• A close pal of Letby reveals what she was like at university
• One of the baby’s mums reveals Letby’s chilling admission in court
• An expert accuses data used to convict Letby of being ‘misinterpreted
• Defence barrister claims Letby’s haunting notes were due to therapy and ‘not a confession’
• Letby was ‘scapegoated’ by the hospital she worked at, her lawyer claims

As the plain-clothed officers pile into the home, Susan can be heard sobbing and pleading with officers to leave her daughter alone.

She screams: “Please no… not again, no… no. I can’t.”

Det Supt Blackwell tries to calm the hysterical mum, saying “I know it’s upsetting”, as members of his team climb the stairs towards Letby’s room.

The nurse is shown looking startled as she is informed she is being arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.

Letby remains speechless as she sits up in her bed in a blue dressing gown.

Moments later, she follows cops down the stairs and asks them if she can see her cat, before picking it up and cuddling it.

She tells her parents “you know I didn’t do it”, before they both respond “I know you didn’t”.

As Letby leaves the home, she says “it’s alright”, before calmly asking them to look after her cats.

Susan can be heard sobbing as her daughter is marched towards the police car, before being told “just go in mum”.

Letby gets emotional as she continues: “Don’t look mum, just go… mum just go in.”

The never-before-seen footage has been released as part of Netflix’s new documentary, The Investigation of Lucy Letby.

It explores both sides of the divisive case behind the UK’s and one of Britain’s worst-ever female serial killers.

Viewers hear accounts from the victim’s families, barristers connected and staff at the hospital where Letby carried out her sickening crimes.

In August 2023, the nurse was found guilty of seven counts of murder following a nine-month trial and 22 days of jury deliberation.

But one of the consultants who helped put Letby behind bars has since admitted his “guilt” over her conviction.

Dr John Gibb worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital with Letby between 2015 and 2016 – when she embarked upon her horrific spree.

The pair were on the same neonatal ward when the consultant repeatedly raised concerns to management about the nurse.

But Dr Gibb has since spoken of his “guilt”, confessing they may have got “the wrong person” – as the nurse looks set to spend her life behind bars.

Speaking on Netflix’s documentary The Investigation of Lucy Letby, he admitted: “I live with two guilts.

“Guilt that we let the babies down… and tiny, tiny, tiny guilt ‘Did we get the wrong person?’

“There’s a guilt, you know, just in case… miscarriage of justice.

“I don’t think there was a miscarriage of justice… but you worry that no one actually saw her do it.”

Top barrister Mark McDonald – recruited by Letby’s “distraught” parents – is now leading the charge to get the nurse’s case reviewed.

He sent an appeal application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) – which reviews possible miscarriages of justice – early last year.

Cops attended Letby and her parent’s homes numerous times – arresting her on three occasions.

They discovered disturbing notes that Letby had hidden in a red suitcase and black bin bags scattered around her property.

She wrote, “I am evil,” while another note read, “I don’t deserve to live. I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough to care for them”.

But Mr McDonald claimed that Letby had been advised to write her thoughts and feelings down by occupational therapy.

Letby gets emotional as she tells Susan: ‘Don’t look mum, just go… mum just go in’Credit: Netflix Dr John Gibb worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital with Letby between 2015 and 2016Credit: Netflix Cops attended Letby and her parent’s homes numerous timesCredit: Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026

The barrister said the nurse’s sinister scrawls were a “form of therapy” rather than “a confession”, as the court was told.

And he has even called into doubt evidence provided by the chief prosecution expert during Letby’s trial, Dr Dewi Evans.

Dr Evans based his evidence on research conducted by Dr Shoo Lee – who suggested that his work had been “misinterpreted” during the trial.

He said: “I was very troubled. Potentially a young woman could be in jail for the rest of her life and to die in prison for the wrong reason.”

During the documentary, viewers are also introduced to one of Letby’s closest pals, Maisie – who remains firmly behind her friend.

The pair met while studying nursing at the University of Chester.

Maisie describes meeting Letby on the first day of lectures, with the nurse’s smile “putting her at ease straightaway”.

The pair quickly became “inseparable”, with Maisie hailing her friend’s “quirky sense of humour”.

Their “special friendship” has continued and the pair remained in contact while Letby was in prison.

In previously unseen letters, the killer nurse spoke of her cushy ensuite cell and how she missed her “babies” back home.

Sarah, whose baby Zoe died on the ward during Letby’s spree, is the first parent involved in the trial to be interviewed on screen for a doc.

The mum – anonymised on screen using AI tech – revealed she recognised Letby “as soon as I saw her face” on the news following her arrest.

The “broken” mum chillingly recalled seeing the neonatal nurse with a clipboard when she visited baby Zoe for the first time.

Sarah also told how she sat just three metres from Letby during the trial – and repeatedly saw the killer nurse “staring at her” from the dock.

In a heartbreaking admission, Sarah said she felt she had “failed as a mum” in the immediate aftermath of Letby’s conviction.

She said: “I felt relieved, happy and then instantly broken. Because now this is true… I can’t escape this reality.

“I felt I needed to say sorry to my daughter. In my head, I failed… as a mum. I was asleep when this was happening.

“When she needed me I wasn’t there.”

Sarah, the mum of one of the murdered babies, Zoe, is anonymised through AI techCredit: Netflix