This British Nurse Who Murdered Seven Babies Has Been Sentenced To Life In Prison
The murders make Lucy Letby the most prolific baby serial killer in modern British history.
Lucy Letby, a 33-year-old British Nurse, has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others under her care.
She was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Monday, Aug. 21 by the Manchester Crown Court in northern England.
This makes Letby the most prolific baby serial killer in modern British history and the fourth woman to receive life imprisonment in the UK.
The seven attempted murders involved six newborns, meaning that she tried to kill a baby on two separate occasions, according to the New York Times.
The crimes occurred while Lebty was working at the neonatal ward at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Cheshire between June 2015 and June 2016.
She reportedly secretly preyed on the newborns by injecting air into their bloodstream and stomachs, poisoning them with insulin, overfeeding them with milk and physically assaulting them.
The case also raised questions about the hospital’s management system.
Letby was convicted and suspended from the hospital three years after a consultant first reported concerns in 2015 over a significant rise in infant deaths under her care.
However, during this time, the hospital’s top officials allegedly dismissed repeated warnings.
A BBC investigation found that the hospital not only demanded doctors who filed complaints against Letby write her an apology but also failed to report the deaths appropriately and delayed involving the police.
“I don’t deserve to live. I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough to care for them,” Letby wrote in a note later found by the police.
“I am evil I did this,” another note said.
Letby refused to appear at the sentencing, fuelling anger across the courtroom.
The judge described her crimes as “a deep malevolence bordering on sadism”.
“This justice will not take away from the extreme hurt, anger and distress that we have all had to experience,” the victims’ families said in a joint statement.
