{"id":75051,"date":"2023-08-18T13:52:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T12:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=75051"},"modified":"2023-08-18T13:52:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T12:52:24","slug":"nurse-lucy-letby-uks-notorious-baby-killer-found-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/nurse-lucy-letby-uks-notorious-baby-killer-found-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurse Lucy Letby, UK&#8217;s Notorious Baby Killer Found Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nurse Lucy Letby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies on a neonatal unit, making her the United Kingdom&#8217;s most prolific child serial killer in modern times.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old has also been convicted of trying to kill six other infants at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75052 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230818-WA0040.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230818-WA0040.jpg 690w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230818-WA0040-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230818-WA0040-654x1024.jpg 654w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230818-WA0040-70x110.jpg 70w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230818-WA0040-268x420.jpg 268w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230818-WA0040-275x430.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/>Letby deliberately injected babies with air, force fed others milk and poisoned two of the infants with insulin.<\/p>\n<p>Since Wednesday, Letby has refused to appear in the dock for the verdicts.<\/p>\n<p>She broke down in tears as the first guilty verdicts were read out by the jury&#8217;s foreman on 8 August after 76 hours of deliberations.<\/p>\n<p>Letby cried with her head bowed as the second set of guilty verdicts were returned on 11 August.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75053 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230818-WA0041.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1030\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230818-WA0041.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230818-WA0041-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230818-WA0041-1024x713.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230818-WA0041-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230818-WA0041-110x77.jpg 110w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230818-WA0041-420x292.jpg 420w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230818-WA0041-618x430.jpg 618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\" \/>She was found not guilty of two attempted murder charges and the jury was undecided on further attempted murder charges relating to four babies.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>During the trial, which started in October 2022, the prosecution labelled Letby as a &#8220;calculating and devious&#8221; opportunist who &#8220;gaslighted&#8221; colleagues to cover her &#8220;murderous assaults&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She was convicted following a two-year investigation by Cheshire Police into the alarming and unexplained rise in deaths and near-fatal collapses of premature babies at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Among her murder victims were two babies from a set of identical triplets. She also attacked three sets of twins.<\/p>\n<p>The jury, made up of four men and seven women, spent more than 100 hours deliberating, and delivered their verdicts to the 22 charges in batches that could not be reported until now.<\/p>\n<p>Her unimaginable crimes, which have shocked the nation, mean Letby, is likely to spend the rest of her life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>She is due to be sentenced next week.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nurse Lucy Letby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies on a neonatal unit, making her the United Kingdom&#8217;s most prolific child serial killer in modern times.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":75054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[10456],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-75051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-crime","category-news","tag-uk-nurse"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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