A nurse accused of murdering seven babies and trying to kill 10 more wrote 'I am evil I did this' on a piece of paper later found in a police search of her house, a court has heard.
Lucy Letby, who worked in the neonatal unit of Chester Hospital in England, also wrote: 'I don't deserve to live. I killed them on purpose because I'm not good enough to care for them.
I am a horrible evil person', Manchester Crown Court was told. The notes were among other papers and Post-it notes which also contained "many protestations of innocence", Nick Johnson KC, prosecuting, told the jury.
Letby, 32, denies attacking newborn children in a variety of ways, including poisoning, during an alleged killing spree on the neonatal unit at Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.
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