The conviction on Friday made Lucy Letby the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern times.
Nurse Lucy Letby is due to be sentenced later after being found guilty of murdering seven babies, making her the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern times.at the Countess of Chester Hospital.She has indicated she will not be in court for the hearing.
Her legal team said she also does not want to follow proceedings via a videolink from prison, the reasons for her non-attendance at Manchester Crown Court have not been disclosed.Letby - who deliberately injected babies with air, force fed others milk and poisoned two of the infants with insulin between June 2015 and June 2016 - refused to appear in the dock as the latest verdicts were read out on Friday.
They had been delivered over several hearings, but could not be reported until all the verdicts were returned. Letby, originally of Hereford, broke down in tears as the first guilty verdicts were read out by the jury's foreman on 8 August after 76 hours of deliberations.Baby serial killer Lucy Letby
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