Lucy Letby Child Killer in Manchester - Source: The Independent
English nurse Lucy Letby, known as the “infant serial killer”, who was sentenced to life in prison last month for the murder of seven newborns, plans to appeal the conviction, a British court said in a report on Saturday.
Manchester Court Convicts Letby
A Manchester court in northern Britain convicted Letby, 33, of murdering seven newborns and attempting to kill six others at the hospital where she worked.
Uk Nurse, Lucy Letby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies on a neonatal unit, making her the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern times.
The 33-year-old has also been convicted of trying to kill six other infants at the Countess of Chester Hospital. pic.twitter.com/dvqpnKY1Gh
— Emmanuel Ndu (@emmynduc) August 18, 2023
The British nurse denied involvement in the murders attributed to her throughout her trial, which lasted for several months, yet she was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of a reduced sentence, a very rare provision in English law.
Earlier on Friday, the Court of Appeal noted that the nurse had filed an appeal, and the judiciary has yet to study this request, and clarified that the appeal relates to all the charges for which she was convicted.
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— Daisy Hart ('Royal Expert'!) (@HartDaisy1) August 23, 2023
A hearing is scheduled for Sept. 25, when the prosecutor’s office is expected to decide whether to apply for a new trial, based on six attempted infanticide that jurors in the Letby trial have been unable to reach a verdict.
Worst killer for children
The murders committed by nurse Letby, who made her the worst child killer in the UK’s modern history, took place from June 2015 to June 2016, killing her infant victims by injecting air into a vein or using nasoenteral tubes to send air or an overdose of milk into their stomachs.
The absence of the nurse, known as the “infant incest”, from court on the day of the verdict, as well as during the sentencing hearing, sparked outrage and anger among the families of the victims, and as a result, the British government announced its intention to enact legislation to compel people accused of serious crimes to appear in court.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Health announced the opening of an investigation to examine the circumstances surrounding the death of the victims of “Letby”, especially with regard to the position of the hospital management, which noticed the suspicious behavior of the nurse in 2015, and only took decisive action in 2018.
