Inside Lucy Letby's £200k 'ordinary' Chester home that parents helped pay for

12 June 2024 , 14:55

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Lucy Letby bought the three-bedroom home in April 2016 (Image: The Move Market)

Killer nurse Lucy Letby will never return to the place she once called home.

The former NHS nurse was convicted of murdering seven babies and deliberately harming six more in her care, between June 2015 and 2016, and handed a whole-life order in August 2023. Before she was sent behind bars, Letby, 34, lived alone in a three-bedroom house on Westbourne Road in Chester.

At the time, she worked as a neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital, which was only a five-minute drive away. Her job meant she would often leave before dawn and return home late, rarely crossing paths with those next door.

Letby's modern-looking living room was open-plan with a cosy corner sofa, flat-screen television and dining table with four chairs (The Move Market)

Letby's parents helped her buy the semi-detached home for £179,000 in April 2016, and she'd made it her own, framing prints on the walls and decorating with fairy lights. Her neighbours, largely made up of pensioners and families, had no reason to pay her attention - until she was arrested outside the property in 2018.

The modern-looking house had a garage, drive and front garden. The downstairs kitchen had French doors leading out to a small back garden, which eerily backed onto the Blacon Crematorium which has a memorial garden for babies. Her bright living room had an open front room, with a cosy-looking corner sofa and a dining table with four seats.

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The downstairs kitchen was grey and white, with lots of spacious cupboards and French doors leading out to a small back garden (The Move Market)

Her kitchen was grey and white, with lots of spacious cupboards and a window looking out to her back garden. The large bathroom had a standing shower and a bath, while the second bedroom boasted a large double bed and a wardrobe with a full-length mirror. Everything appeared completely ordinary for a woman in her thirties.

In December 2019, Letby made the decision to sell her home and put it on the market. It sold for £201,000 to a man who later admitted that he knew the owner had been accused of murdering babies when he bought it.

Dean Porter, who works as a wind turbine technician, previously told the Daily Mail: "I was aware of the previous owner's background when I bought it. I was told by the estate agent what was going on but obviously, I've got nothing to do with the previous owner." He declined to comment on what it is like to live in a serial killer's former home.

Nia Dalton