Lucy Letby, a neonatal nurse who was convicted final 12 months of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others on the English hospital the place she labored, was discovered responsible on Tuesday of the tried homicide of one other untimely child.
A jury had initially failed to succeed in a verdict within the case of the kid, often called Child Ok to guard her id, and Ms. Letby was retried over the past 4 weeks in a courtroom in Manchester within the north of England. She can be sentenced on Friday and is already serving a life time period for the sooner convictions.
Ms. Letby, 34, was working on the Countess of Chester Hospital within the metropolis of Chester, in northwestern England, between June 2015 and June 2016 when an unexpectedly excessive variety of infants within the neonatal unit the place she labored died or turned critically unwell.
Nicola Wyn Williams, a senior crown prosecutor, mentioned that whereas Ms. Letby had “regularly denied that she tried to kill this child or any of the infants that she has been convicted of murdering or trying to homicide,” the jury had “shaped its personal view.”
“The grief that the household of Child Ok have felt is unimaginable,” she mentioned. “Our ideas stay with them and all these affected by this case presently.”