Unseen footage of serial baby killer Lucy Letby being arrested in her bed will be aired as part of a new Netflix documentary into her case.

The 90-minute film, which will focus on the investigation into her crimes, will also include clips of the 36-year-old former neo-natal nurse’s police interviews, testimony from senior detectives and an interview with the mother of one of her victims.

It is the first time a family member involved in the prosecution has spoken in a television documentary.

In a trailer for the programme, entitled Investigation of Lucy Letby, which was released today, the child killer is seen in bed, at her parent’s home, in Hereford,  looking bewildered as a police officer explains her rights and arrests her.

The bodycam footage also shows her being led out of the semi-detached property, wearing a grey fleece dressing gown over a tracksuit.

She tells the Cheshire Constabulary officers: ‘Don’t look, just go in.’

In another clip, Letby can be seen crying as she is placed in handcuffs and kissing one of her beloved cats goodbye before she is led away.

Letby’s trial heard that she was devastated when her two pets, Tigger and Smudge, had to be re-homed when she was eventually charged with killing and harming children, in November 2020.

Lucy Letby in her childhood bedroom in her parent’s home, in Hereford, looking bewildered as a police officer explains her rights and arrests her for the second time, in June 2020

The show will also include clips of the 36-year-old former neo-natal nurse’s police interviews

Lucy Letby sits up in her bed at her parent’s home, in Hereford, as she is arrested by police for a third and final time, in November 2020, in the never-before-seen footage

 The bodycam footage from Letby’s second arrest shows her being led out of her parent’s home

The trial heard Letby was devastated when her pets had to be rehomed when she was charged

‘The Investigation Of Lucy Letby’ will release globally on Netflix on February 4

Other footage of Letby’s police interviews, shown in the trailer, include Detective Sergeant Danielle Stonier asking Letby about the ‘confession’ note officers discovered during a search of her property. 

‘You wrote a note saying: “I killed them on purpose”,’ DS Stonier says.

Letby replies: ‘No comment.’

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In other clips of the interviews, Letby says: ‘I felt like I had only ever done my best for those babies…I loved my job (and) it was all spiralling out of control.’

Letby was arrested three times, in July 2018, June 2019 and November 2020, before eventually being charged with murdering and harming children in her care.

Other footage due to be aired in the feature-length documentary, produced by ITN Productions, shows Letby in the back of a police car in handcuffs, being searched by an officer for weapons, alone in a police cell and waiting at a police station reception desk, where suspects are routinely booked in and charged.

The film is scheduled to be released globally by Netflix on February 4, the same day as inquests into the deaths of six of Letby’s victims are due to open.

Other contributors include Dr John Gibbs, one of the doctors at the Countess of Chester Hospital who blew the whistle on Letby; journalist Kim Pilling, of the Press Association, who sat through every day of Letby’s two trials; Dr Dewi Evans, the lead prosecution expert; and Mark McDonald, Letby’s new barrister.

Letby, 36, from Hereford, is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others – one of whom she attacked twice – between June 2015 and June 2016.

Letby appears to cry as she is arrested at her home in Blacon, near Chester, for the first time, in July 2018. She was arrested three times in total and questioned for several days. She has always maintained innocence

Letby, 36, from Hereford, is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted of murder

Footage of Letby’s first arrest, in July 2018, shows Letby at a police station reception desk, where suspects are usually booked in and charged

Letby is seen saying during police interviews: ‘It was all just spiralling out of control’

A ‘confession’ note found at Letby’s home, on which she had written ‘I killed them on purpose’

The new Netflix documentary also a note from Letby which says: ‘I am evil, I did this’

On Tuesday it was confirmed she will face no further charges over more deaths and collapses of babies that were investigated by police.

Cheshire Constabulary passed additional evidence to prosecutors last year for consideration, linked to eight potential offences of attempted murder and one offence of murder at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

Another two allegations of attempted murder and murder were linked to one child at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, where Letby undertook student training placements.

Letby has always maintained her innocence. 

Her new defence team have submitted reports to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the body that investigates potential miscarriages of justice, in the hope her case will be referred back to the Court of Appeal so she can be freed 

Lady Justice Thirlwall’s public inquiry report into how Letby was able to commit her crimes on a hospital neonatal unit is due to be published later this year.

‘The Investigation Of Lucy Letby’ will release globally on Netflix on February 4