Probation for man who told nurse she 'looked like Lucy Letby'

44-year-old also 'chanted' about Met rapist and cop killer during A+E visit

A Douglas man who told a nurse on the Isle of Man she looked like serial baby killer Lucy Letby has been ordered to work with the probation service.

Jason Brown, of Empress Drive, also began chanting about convicted cop killer Dale Cregan, and rapist and murderer Wayne Couzens, during his attendance at Accident and Emergency.

At Douglas Courthouse yesterday he pleaded guilty to using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour at Noble’s Hospital on Wednesday (23 August).

The 44-year-old had been detained by police under the Mental Health Act but he became abusive towards officers, and medical staff, in front of other patients – one of whom, an elderly woman, was receiving oxygen treatment.

At 12.35am Brown began swearing at a doctor who was trying to help him telling him he was disgusting and adding: “You disgust me.”

The doctor refused to treat him due to his ‘foul and abusive’ language.

Brown then told a nurse, who was attending to him, that she ‘must be related’ to jailed neonatal nurse Letby – the UK’s most prolific child serial killer of modern times – and that she 'looked like her'.

The prosecutor described Brown’s comments, in light of Letby’s recent conviction and sentencing, as ‘abhorrent’ and ‘highly distasteful’.

He added that Brown had also begun ‘chanting’ about other offenders in front of the police officers who were accompanying him.

This included a chant about Dale Cregan – who murdered two police officers in 2012 – with Brown saying: “Dale Cregan is our friend, let him out to kill some more.”

He also began chanting about former Met police officer Wayne Couzens, who kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard in 2021 in London, saying: “Wayne Couzens is a rapist, rapist, rapist.”

The court heard mental health professionals who assessed Brown at hospital deemed that he wasn’t mentally unwell or in crisis.

Brown’s advocate told the court his client had thought his arrest was ‘unjust’ adding: “He was upset at having his liberty detained.”

This, he said, meant Brown had let his anger ‘overflow’ with the advocate adding: “That is no excuse for what he said to the doctor.”

Addressing the comments directed towards the nurse he added: “In the present circumstances the woman would have taken offence to that.”

Magistrates imposed a 12-month probation order as punishment – Brown was also granted an extension to pay an outstanding fine imposed for a previous offence; he was not ordered to pay prosecution costs.