Baby killer Lucy Letby caught out by 'unusual habit' she couldn’t stop - even after arrest

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Police officers searching the Chester home of serial killer Lucy Letby discovered a very detailed and disturbing ‘glimpse into her psyche’.The former NHS neonatal nurse's bedroom contained several items that took on a sinister new significance and later provided a ‘confession’ in court.Detective Superintendent Paul Hughes, who led the police investigation, said: "The amount of evidence we recovered from her home address was just not expected.“Thousands and thousands of documents, many devices that led to downloads of half a million pages of information that we did not expect to find."Letby, 33, had kept an exhaustive record of her heinous crimes between June 2015 and June 2016, in the form of official hospital documents, handwritten Post-it notes and a personal diary, the Mirror reports.It was her unstoppable habit of scribbling down her chaotic and evil thoughts that helped to convict her of killing seven helpless babies.

And it didn't even stop after her arrest.In a documentary made by Cheshire Constabulary, Detective Inspector Rob Woods said: "The amount of material we found at her home address was, I think, a massive surprise to us when she was first arrested.“It gave us a really good steer for the second occasion as to what sort of things we were looking for.

Something that's been very useful to the enquiry has been Miss Letby's diaries. “They appeared to be and it became clear later that it was almost a code of coloured asterisks and various other things put in a diary that marked significant events.""We knew she was a copious writer of notes," DI Woods explained. "Now we thought that perhaps having been arrested she might stop doing that.