A British nurse was found guilty Friday of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to kill six others at the
Lucy Letby, 33, had been on trial since October last year, accused of either injecting her sick or premature young victims with air, overfeeding them with milk or poisoning them with insulin.
Letby fought back tears in the dock after the initial verdicts were read out. She was not in court Friday to hear the jurors’ final determinations. “Time and again, she harmed babies, in an environment which should have been safe for them and their families,” said senior prosecutor Pascale Jones, calling the killings “a complete betrayal of the trust placed in her”.
Letby was also said to have attacked another baby boy, child Q, shortly after but the jury was unable to reach a verdict on the charge. Letby later tried to explain the note by saying she wrote it after being placed on clerical duties following the death of the two triplets. Nigel Scawn, medical director at the Countess of Chester, said the case had a “profound impact” on the hospital’s patients but “significant changes” have been made since Letby worked there.
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