In Britain, maternity ward nurse Lucy Letby was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six more, making her the most serious child killer in modern British history and raising urgent questions about whether her crimes could have been to be prevented, BNR reported.
Lucy Letby, 33, was arrested yesterday after being convicted of the “well-planned and cold-blooded” murders of five premature boys and two newborn girls in the maternity ward of a hospital in north-west England mainly in 2015 and 2016.
Ministers have ordered an independent inquiry into how Letby was able to carry out her horrific plan, but the question remains whether the babies could have been saved if hospital management had said it sooner. Dr Stephen Breary, who first warned of the nurse’s link to the unusual deaths, believes bosses were negligent in not contacting the police sooner. Lucy Letby’s victims included two identical triplet brothers within 24 hours, a newborn weighing less than 1 kilogram, fatally injected with air, and a girl born 10 weeks prematurely, killed on the fourth attempt.
Grieving parents wept in the public gallery as the verdicts were handed down over several dramatic days at Manchester Crown Court in one of the longest murder trials in recent memory. Outside court, the victims’ parents said justice had been served, but no sentence would take away the extreme pain, anger and suffering they had all had to experience. When the sentence is announced on Monday, Letby is expected to become only the third living woman in the UK to be jailed for life.
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