My baby died on Lucy Letby’s unit – then I found a photo of her with him

A MUM whose baby died on the unit where Lucy Letby worked has spoken of her horror at finding a photograph of the killer nurse with her son.

Emily Morris, 35, lost her boy Alvin, who was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, when he was just a month old.

She has been left feeling “sickened” after finding a chilling image taken at his christening — showing Letby standing over him.

Emily is now calling for his death to be reinvestigated after police concluded in 2018 that there were no suspicious circumstances.

The haunting photo was taken at the Countess of Chester Hospital, Cheshire, in 2013 — two years before Letby, 33, started her year-long baby killing spree there.

The nurse was given a whole life order last month for murdering seven infants and trying to kill six more.

Emily, of Deeside, Flintshire, and Alvin’s stepfather Mark Lewis, 39, only found the photo this week after it was stored on a disc in a memory box which they had been unable to download.

She said: “I feel sickened to see she was there.

“Lucy Letby told us Alvin was deteriorating the night before he died.

“In the morning, he was dead, which is weird.

“It’s like she was hinting that she did something.

“I think she’s sick.

“Alvin was a happy little chappy, always smiling.”

In the disturbing picture, Letby can be seen touching Alvin’s blanket as his mother is holding him.

Emily said it was “freaky” that the serial killer nurse wrote in his christening book: “To Alvin, with love on your special day.”

Emily added: “It makes you feel ill looking at it.

“How could a person do that to a baby?”

Urging the police to reinvestigate, she said: “Why was she with him the night before?

“The next day, we were woken up and went in and he was already dead.

“We’re saying it’s suspicious.

“It’s weird. She must have done something.”

NHS staff have been told they will be forced to give evidence under oath in the Letby probe.

Ministers feared health executives involved in the scandal would try to dodge the inquiry.

Health Secretary Steve Barclay said: “Having now discussed this with the families, we will launch a full statutory inquiry giving it the legal powers to compel witnesses to give evidence.”

The Treasury has already signed off millions of pounds to pay for the process.

Previous inquiries have cost up to £13million.