Neonatal nurse was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six more
The mother of Child C, who was murdered, now reads her statement in person to the court. She says she will always remember the “overwhelming weight of emotion” she felt when she first held her newborn son.
It was like nothing I’d experienced before … the way he smelled … my tiny firstborn son.
The trauma of us all will live with us all until we die. Learning that his killer was watching us [as we grieved] is like something out of a horror story.
I think about what his voice would have sounded like. What he would have looked like now. Who he would have been.
I feel able to wear his hand and footprints for the first time in five years. I know now they represent the love that I have for my son. I will not allow evil to take that. They represent justice and the truth.
There is no sentence that will ever compare to the excruciating agony that we have experienced since the death of our son … You killed them on purpose. You are evil. You did this.
Never could we have imagined that the most previous things in our lives would be placed in such harm in the care of a nurse.
Our minds are so traumatised that it won’t let us remember the night you killed our child. What should have been the happiest night of our lives became our worst.
After losing Child A, we made sure that there was always a member of their family at the side of his twin sister Child B. However, we made a mistake.
You thought it was your right to play God with our lives. Our lives are tough. We struggle with depression, anxiety and PTSD. We sometimes want to give up but we never will … we have a duty to give [Child B] the best life possible and we will spend our lives doing that.
We hope you live a very long life and spend every day suffering forever … We will never think of you again from this day. You are nothing.
