British nurse Lucy Letby, 34, has been retried in Manchester since the beginning of June, for an attempted murder of a baby on which the jury in her first trial failed to agree on a verdict. In August 2023, she was found guilty of the murder of seven premature newborns and six attempted murders in the Chester hospital (north-west of England) where she worked, in 2015 and 2016, making she the greatest child killer in modern UK history.
She had injected air intravenously into premature newborns, used their nasogastric tubes to send air or an overdose of milk into their stomachs, causing their deaths. The courts denied him the right to appeal this conviction.
Called to give evidence in court on Monday, Lucy Letby strongly denied trying to kill “Baby K” while she was working night shifts in the neonatal ward at Chester Hospital on February 17, 2016. “Did you try to kill” this child? asks his lawyer Ben Myers. “No,” she replies. “Did you try to harm him in any way?” he insists. “No,” replies Lucy Letby soberly, who once again denies having ever harmed a baby, despite the result of her first trial.
In front of the twelve jurors, she claims not to remember the events of that night and disagrees with the testimony of a pediatrician also on duty. He claimed to have entered the intensive care unit less than two hours after the birth of “Baby K” and to have seen the nurse standing near the incubator “doing nothing”, while the level of The little premature baby’s oxygen levels had dropped dangerously but no alarm was ringing.
The next day, the baby was transferred to another hospital because of his extreme prematurity. She died three days later, but the prosecutor did not bring murder charges against Lucy Letby. At the start of the trial, the prosecutor appealed to the jury not to forget the nurse’s previous convictions when making their decision. “It is important to emphasize that the previous convictions do not prove this accusation,” defended the nurse’s lawyer.
