Letby stopped coming into the courtroom as the case drew to a close and was absent during the final rounds of verdicts
Lucy Letby has become the most prolific child serial-killer in modern British history after being found guilty of murdering seven babies while working as a nurse at the Countess of Chester hospital.
As the third round of verdicts were read out, the mother of one of Letby’s victims, known as Baby E, bent over sobbing as it emerged that the nurse had murdered her baby. The jury had already unanimously decided that Letby attempted to kill the child’s twin sibling. The only other women to receive a whole life prison order are Joanna Dennehy, who murdered three men in 2013, and Rose West, who conspired with her husband Fred to torture and murder ten young women in the 1970s and 80s.
None of the victims or their families can be identified due to an unprecedented court order that has been granted giving them anonymity in reporting of the case for life. But detectives say they began investigating the case with an “open mind” as to what had happened and hoped they would not find any criminal offences.
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