A British court has sentenced a nurse to life in prison for killing a little girl in the hospital where she worked, after previously being convicted of killing 7 newborns during her work.
A jury at Manchester Crown Court on Wednesday convicted nurse Lucy Letby, 34, of attempting to murder a baby who was in the intensive care unit at Countess of Chester Hospital in the northwest of the UK in February 2016.
"She has now been convicted by two separate juries and the verdict means she will never be released from prison," prosecutor Nicola Wynne-Williams said in a statement, describing what was an "incredibly difficult, complex and disturbing" case.
Prosecutor Nick Johnson also noted that a paediatrician caught the former nurse "red-handed" while moving a breathing tube into a newborn.
On Tuesday, Judge James Goss addressed Letby, who reiterated her "innocence," saying, "You have coldly denied any responsibility and have shown no remorse."
In August 2023, the nurse was convicted of murdering seven newborn babies and attempting to murder six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 2016. To try to kill them, she used intravenous air injections, nasogastric tubes to deliver air, and an overdose of milk into their stomachs.
Letby's motives are not clear, and she cannot appeal this ruling, according to what the British judiciary decided at the end of last May.
Disappointing!
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