UK baby killer Lucy Letby found guilty of trying to kill another child
- Former nurse Letby, UK’s most prolific serial child killer of modern times, was found guilty in August of murdering 7 babies and trying to kill 6 more
Former nurse Lucy Letby was found guilty on Tuesday of trying to murder another newborn baby, adding to convictions last year that made her Britain’s most prolific serial child killer of modern times.
She was jailed for life and told she would never be released. Letby denied having harmed any baby in her care.
Last month, she went on trial for a second time on one count of attempted murder of a further baby girl, known as Child K, a charge on which the original jury had failed to reach a verdict.
These were the actions of a cold-blooded, calculated killer
Prosecutor Nick Johnson told Manchester Crown Court that Child K was born prematurely at 25 weeks in February 2016 at the hospital, and had been connected to a ventilator and other machines monitoring her heart rate and oxygen levels.
Little more than an hour after the birth, while other staff were absent, Johnson said, senior doctor Ravi Jayaram entered the room where she was being looked after to find the baby’s breathing tube dislodged, alarms that should have sounded had become disabled, and Letby standing there “doing nothing”.