A British nurse has been found guilty of murdering seven babies after a sensational trial. The Manchester court also found the 33-year-old guilty on Friday of the attempted murder of six other babies in the neonatal ward of a hospital in Chester, northwest England. The verdict against the woman will be announced later.
According to the indictment, Lucy Letby killed the babies between June 2015 and June 2016 by injecting air or poisoning them with insulin. In court she had protested her innocence and said she would never harm a baby. However, the prosecutor’s office described the 33-year-old as a “coolly calculating” perpetrator who used targeted killing methods that “barely left a trace”.
Victims were often premature babies
The woman was arrested after a spike in infant mortality in the neonatal ward at Countess of Chester Hospital. Colleagues had noticed that all the deaths had occurred while the nurse was at work. The woman’s victims were babies who needed treatment or were born prematurely.
The nurse’s youngest alleged victim, a premature boy, was just one day old. According to the trial, he was “healthy” until June 8, 2015, when the defendant assumed her duties in the neonatal ward. 90 minutes later he was dead.
Two killed by triplets
The victims also included two premature triplets who died 24 hours apart. Her brother survived because his parents insisted that he be transferred to another hospital after the death of his siblings.
Source: Krone
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