‘Angels of death’: Why do healthcare workers kill those they are meant to protect?

The Letby case has raised familiar questions about healthcare killers.
Lucy Letby. Photo: Cheshire Constabulary/PA Wire.

“This was a cruel, calculated and cynical campaign of child murder … There was a deep malevolence bordering on sadism in your actions.”

These were the closing remarks of Justice James Goss as he handed down a whole-life sentence to Lucy Letby, the UK nurse found guilty of killing seven babies and attempting to murder six others.