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SERIAL KILLER Nurse Letby Investigated on 4000 MORE DEAD Babies
Nurse Lucy Letby Poisoned Two Babies With Insulin Days After They Were Born
Lucy Letby, 32, pleaded not guilty this morning to all 22 charges at Manchester Crown Court - the trial is expected to take up to six months after an investigation was launched into the deaths
BBC News 11 Oct 2022
Lucy Letby, who had specialist training in care for the sickest babies at the neonatal unit in the Countess of Chester, is alleged to have gone on a year-long killing spree while working there.
A police van parked outside Manchester Crown Court, where the Lucy Letby murder trial is due to take place
She is charged with attacking - and in some instances murdering - sets of twins, as well as attempting to murder the same children more than once.
A nurse accused of killing seven babies and trying to murder another 10 allegedly poisoned two babies with insulin days after they were born, a jury has heard today.
Lucy Letby, 32, pleaded not guilty to all 22 charges at Manchester Crown Court this morning.
Letby, of Hereford, denies murdering five boys and two girls, and attempting to murder another five boys and five girls between June 2015 and June 2016.
In some instances, she is accused of attempting to murder the same infant multiple times.
Opening for the prosecution, Nick Johnson KC told jurors that "within the neonatal unit in the Countess of Chester a poisoner was at work".
He told the court that many of the incidents happened during the night shift, and at the time Letby worked the night shift there was a rise in deaths and collapses.
He also said that when Letby was moved to the day shift, there was a rise in unusual collapses and deaths on the day shift.
Mr Johnson said police were called in and conducted a “pain-staking review” after medics could not account for the collapses and deaths.
He said: “That review suggests that in the period between mid-2015 and the middle of 2016 somebody in the neo-natal unit poisoned two children with insulin.
“The prosecution says that the only reasonable conclusion to be drawn from the evidence you will hear is that somebody poisoned these babies deliberately with insulin. This was no accident.”
The collapses and deaths of all the 17 children concerned were not “naturally-occurring tragedies,” the jury of five men and nine women were told today.
“They were all the work, we say, of the woman in the dock, who we say was the constant malevolent presence when things took a turn for the worse for these 17 children.
A court sketch of Letby from 2020
Letby, of Arran Avenue, Hereford, denies all 22 charges - which concern 17 babies.
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