Lucy Letby Found Guilty at Retrial of Attempting to Murder Baby Girl: 'Cold-Blooded, Calculated Killer'

The prosecutor said, "Lucy Letby has continually denied that she tried to kill this baby or any of the babies that she has been convicted of murdering"

Lucy Letby, the British neonatal nurse found guilty of killing seven infants and attempting to kill six others, has been convicted of the attempted murder of a newborn girl in a case in which the jury failed to reach a verdict last year.

Letby, 34, was found guilty at her retrial of the attempted murder of a baby known only as Child K. The Feb. 2016 incident allegedly happened while Letby was on shift in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, England, the Manchester Evening News reported.

Letby, 34, was accused of dislodging a breathing tube that was attached to a baby girl shortly after her birth, the BBC reported. The baby, who was born at 25 weeks and weighed 1 lb 8oz at birth, was taken to another hospital where she died three days later, per the BBC. According to the BBC, prosecutors have not alleged that Letby caused the girl’s death.

Letby was removed from the neonatal ward at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2016, after senior hospital staff grew suspicious following a year of mysterious deaths and near-deaths of infants.

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She was arrested in July of 2018.

During her previous murder and attempted trial in Manchester Crown Court in 2022 and 2023, prosecutors accused her of force-feeding infants’ milk, poisoning some with insulin and injecting others with air.

In a statement following the verdict, Senior Crown Prosecutor Nicola Wyn Williams, of CPS Mersey-Cheshire’s Complex Casework Unit, said, “Lucy Letby has continually denied that she tried to kill this baby or any of the babies that she has been convicted of murdering or attempting to murder. The jury has heard all of the detailed evidence including from her in her own defence and formed its own view."

The statement continued: “Our case included direct evidence from a doctor who walked into the nursery to find a very premature baby desaturating with Letby standing by, taking no action to help or to raise the alarm. She had deliberately dislodged the breathing tube in an attempt to kill her.

“Staff at the unit had to think the unthinkable – that one of their own was deliberately harming and killing babies in their care.

“Letby dislodged the tube a further two times over the following few hours in an attempt to cover her tracks and suggest that the first dislodgment was accidental. These were the actions of a cold-blooded, calculated killer.

“The grief that the family of Baby K have felt is unimaginable. Our thoughts remain with them and all those affected by this case at this time.”

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In total, five boys and two girls were killed while under Letby’s care.

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She was convicted and sentenced in Aug. 2023 of 14 of a possible 22 counts.

At her sentencing, a judge said Letby showed no remorse for her crimes and had waged a “cruel, calculated and cynical campaign of child murder involving the smallest and most vulnerable of children."

Letby has denied she had anything to do with the deaths.

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