THE parents of twin boys Child L and Child M revealed the stress of the Lucy Letby case had caused the father to suffer a seizure for the first time in his life.

The mother’s statement was read out at Manchester Crown Court during Letby’s sentencing on Monday.

She said: “Being involved in this case has taken its toll on our family and seeing my husband suffer throughout the last five years has been heart-breaking for me to witness.

“The doctors told us that the whole events that took place in 2016 surrounding my children were normal for premature babies and we believed what the doctors were telling us at the time. Little did we know that a year or so after their birth the police would come knocking on the door and break the news that this could be an attempted murder case.”

She added: “The boys had to witness their dad suffer a seizure for the first time in his life which was traumatic for them and I believe this would never have happened without the enormous amount of stress and anxiety this has placed on us as a family.”

The father said, in a statement: “This whole case has taken its toll on me as a person. Previously I was a happy go lucky guy but now I feel burdened with the fact that I was normally a very patient person but my patience has worn thin as time has gone on and has affected my relationship with my children.

“There was a day when I was at the trial and the public gallery was full and I was sat in Lucy Letby’s line of view and she kept looking over at me. That made me feel quite uncomfortable and uneasy and I had to move in the afternoon so I was out of her view.”

A statement was read out for the mother of Child N.

She said Child N was everything she had ever wanted in life. When the baby boy was born, she hadn’t planned for him to be taken to the neonatal unit, and she was so upset.

Preparations were taking place for Child N to be coming home. When they received the news Child N was poorly, they couldn’t believe it, and were presented with an “utter catastrophic scene” when they arrived, “not knowing if he was going to live or die”.

“The pain was immeasurable – we both live with this every day”.

She said she knew Child N had been deliberately harmed, and based it on a mother’s instinct, and told her partner so, at the time.

A baby monitor was in place until Child N was four or five years old, and Child N still has a camera, as she says they are ‘overly protective’ of their boy.

She says anything else in life didn’t matter, only the welfare of their son. “We do everything possible to keep in safe. If that means wrapping him up in cotton wool, then that is what we’ll do.”

She says there was a ‘mixture of emotions’ when police were investigating. They were ‘happy and relieved’ they were ‘finally being listened to’.

She added: “We just questioned why a healthy baby boy was fine one minute and bleeding from the mouth and needing CPR the next.

He said the worst part of going to court was being away from Child N. Having to listen what she did “weighed heavily” on her mind.

“We don’t want her to know the damage she has left – we didn’t want her to get any further satisfaction.”