Hello dears. So I attended a Zoom presentation earlier about Lucy Letby with a chap who was a senior detective with Scotland Yard. He was involved in the Levi Bellfield cases so that piqued my interest. He also claims to be a criminal psychologist but he definitely isn't a psychologist having sat through the talk. Nonetheless some parts of it were interesting (although very few knew as much as this lovely crew
- He made the point that, in his police career, sometimes a clear reason for heinous crime is never really established
- Possible motives: Infatuation (Don't think he knew that the registrar only came into the picture later), a God complex, she loved the grief and despair of the parents and really got a kick out of that, she made numerous statements in texts that she found Nursery 3 & 4 'boring' so it could have been the desire for thrills/wanted excitement of sick babies. Believed a central tenet is not feeling good enough/inadequate and that she wanted to be at the centre of everything/saving lives
- Recommends the book 'The Serial Killer Next Door' and that while trauma or looking for clues in the past is common it can be misleading to do that sometimes. Often there are triggers but not always.
- Men tend to favour more violent crimes....women tend to favour poisoning (insulin) and other subtle means
Important points from a police perspective and how she got away with it for so long:
- She had daily access to her chosen type of victim - easy access
- She was in 100% control of these little people. She was literally in charge of their lives
- The victims/patients were vulnerable and would never be able to fight back/tell
He gave a list of common red flags with healthcare workers who commit murder, some of which apply to Lucifer, others do not:
- Often move from one hospital to another
- Secret/difficult personal relationships
- History mental illness/depression
- Predict when a patient may die
- Makes odd comments
- Claims to be jinxed
- Odd behaviours when a patient dies
- Likes to talk about the death that has occurred
- A pattern of deaths on shifts (and he made the point that this is going to be challenging in the future too because people are now keenly aware of their 'rights' so even bringing this up can be difficult.....not defending her rit management btw)
- Prefers night shifts - fewer potential witnesses)
- Makes people anxious/suspicious
- In possession of books on serial murder (just as well I don't work in healthcare)
- May have substance abuse issue/personality disorder
4 types of serial killers:
- Visionary - usually due to mental illness and have visions/compulsion to kill
- Missionary - on a mission to go and kill
- Hedonistic - because they love it, i.e. Ted Bundy
- Power & Control - this guy was in charge of the child protection team in central London and he said most paedophiles and killers of vulnerable people fall into this category, i.e. Shipman, Jack the Ripper, Fred & Rose West, Levi Bellfield and Lucifer
In conclusion, this copper is absolutely convinced she scores quite highly on the psychopathy scale for the following reasons:
- Lacking guilt
- Incapacity to love
- Shallow emotion
- Egocentric
- Need for stimulation (boredome)
- Superficial charm
I find this interesting as she is not a classic psychopath but I've never met one in a criminal capacity.
What did really pique my interest is the fact that he kept saying what a happy childhood she had. And it was only after I logged off I thought, did she? I mean do we really know that for sure? And I know he was keen to point out that childhood isn't always an indicator and asserted that Shipman and Bundy had happy childhoods (this simply is not true; the former was abused, believed his mother was his sister and beaten senseless by his grandfather, the latter was controlled mercilessly by an over indulgent but cruel mother) but do any of us really know what her childhood was like? She was an only child, there are no witnesses and my psyche spidey senses tell me that there are a lot of residual unhealthy, codependent behaviours that may point to something odd).
Anyway! The DCI finished with a print out of Judge Goss' sentencing remarks and he highlighted a number of really important clues presented in evidence that point towards why Lucifer is in fact a psychopath, I shall attach to this post.
Aaaaaaand
DISCUSS 
On one occasion we found an enormous mound made up of beautiful flowers, by chance, we found a beautiful arrangement which spelled out, Mummy. We delightedly retrieved it and carried it over the fence and presented it to our Mum. Our Mum was horrified and ordered us to return it. The following day, we watched the groundsmen set light to the flower pile. I’m not a serial killer, or a singular killer, but my goodness I loved our ‘garden’.
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