Former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others under her care. Letby now becomes the U.K.'s most prolific child serial killer.
Letby was found guilty of murdering seven babies at the hospital where she worked – making her the UK’s most prolific child serial killer The nurse who led"a campaign of violence" and enjoyed"playing God" has been found guilty of murdering seven babies at a hospital – making her theLucy Letby, 33, was also convicted of trying to kill six other babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit during a yearlong killing spree between June 2015 and June 2016.
Lucy Letby was found guilty by a jury in the U.K. for murdering seven babies at a hospital – making her the U.K.’s most prolific child serial killer. Prosecutors told the jury that Letby was a"constant, malevolent presence" at the hospital’s neonatal unit when the trial opened at Chester Crown Court in October.Babies who had not been unstable"suddenly severely deteriorated" while others who had been sick and recovered, suddenly deteriorated"for no apparent reason."
They claimed she was caught red-handed on two occasions, once by a mother whose baby son was murdered and another time by a doctor as she tried to murder a baby girl.for so long, the jury heard, because colleagues simply could not contemplate there was a murderer on the unit. The woman recalled the"horrendous" screams and seeing blood around his mouth and"feeling frightened" because she knew something was"very wrong."Letby told the panicked mother that the bleeding was caused by a feeding tube rubbing her baby’s throat and"got rid" of her by saying,"Trust me, I’m a nurse."
The jury was told how a"smiling" Letby spoke to the mother of Child I after murdering her at the fourth attempt by injecting air into her feeding tube and bloodstream on Oct. 23, 2015. She murdered two triplet boys, Child O and Child P, and allegedly attempted to murder another baby boy, Child Q, over three successive days.
"She was controlling things. She was enjoying what was going on and happily predicting something she knew was going to happen," said prosecutors.Prosecutors claimed her"campaign of violence" went undetected for so long because Letby’s colleagues had not contemplated the remotest possibility of a nurse killing babies, and her methods left little trace.
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