It has been a busy month in our region's courts.
20.08.2023 - 21:53 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Baby murderer Lucy Letby shares chilling parallels with another killer nurse who also used synthetic insulin to attack his victims.
Victorino Chua was jailed for life with a minimum 35 years behind bars after murdering two patients and poisoning a further 19 in Stockport.
Like Letby, Chua showed zero remorse and even penned secret confessions nobody else was supposed to see.
Letby used insulin twice to attempt to kill babies in her care, much like Chua who used the same technique at Stepping Hill Hospital.
Chua was found guilty by a jury in May 2015. He injected deadly insulin into saline ampoules and bags, leaving them for medics to administer to patients and causing their blood sugar levels to collapse.
Five patients crashed at the same time after Chua’s night shift in July 2011, reported the Manchester Evening News.
Doctors used sugars like glucose and dextrose to revive patients, only to watch them crash again, unaware the saline drips and ampoules they were using had been sabotaged.
But no one suspected foul-play, with staff reasoning that a faulty batch of insulin must have been the cause.
The breakthrough came after detectives found a frozen blood sample from one of Chua’s victims which should’ve been destroyed and found it stuffed with insulin.
Only a month after Chua was jailed, Letby started attacking babies at the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital. Mainly she attacked the infants by injecting air into their tiny bodies.
However, on two occasions she copied the method favoured by Chua, injecting synthetic insulin into bags of nutrients.
The babies collapsed moments after they were administered with the synthetic insulin.
While managers at the Countess of Chester are alleged to have resisted concerns about
It has been a busy month in our region's courts.
A doctor who helped catch killer nurse Lucy Letby said she came to a shocking conclusion after being handed a dossier of evidence. Dr Sandie Bohin was called as an expert witness during Letby's trial, which ended with her being found guilty of murdering seven newborn babies and attempting to murder six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Baby killer Lucy Letby was handed a whole life order this week after murdering seven babies and trying to kill six more while working as an NHS nurse. The 33-year-old refused to face her victims’ families in court as they read out harrowing statements telling how she ripped their lives apart.
Baby killer Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life in jail after being sentenced to a whole life order for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six more. The evil nurse will never return to the three-bedroom house where she lived during her heinous crimes.
An hour long documentary detailing the investigation into serial child killer Lucy Letby has been released by the police team who brought her to justice.
Lucy Letby's doting parents 'hated' one decision she made years before her evil murders, it has been revealed.
Baby killer Lucy Letby’s parents are believed to want to move 250 miles from their family home to be nearer to the prison where their daughter is locked up for life.
The father of murdered police officer Nicola Hughes has said a law change following the refusal of Lucy Letby to attend her sentencing hearing may cause “more anguish” for the families of victims.
The former CEO at the hospital where Lucy Letby murdered seven babies went to become a director of one Greater Manchester’s biggest hospital trusts – just months after resigning during the police investigation into the killer nurse.
Families who lost loved ones in the Manchester Arena bombing have joined growing calls for the most serious criminals to be forced to attend sentencing hearings.
A hospital consultant said he was made to feel he was 'a problem' when he blew the whistle on killer nurse Lucy Letby.
Killer nurse Lucy Letby is to be handed the victim impact statements that were read out during sentencing after refusing to appear in court on Monday (August 21).
Serial baby killer Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life behind bars after receiving the UK's most severe punishment for her crimes.
These are all the words the judge said as Lucy Letby, the nurse who murdered babies on the neonatal unit where she worked, was sentenced today (Monday) at Manchester Crown Court.
The flag above Manchester Crown Court is flying at half mast this afternoon as a mark of respect to the victims of Lucy Letby. It comes as the neonatal nurse is set to be taken from the court building to begin spending the rest of her life in prison.
A senior manager who was in charge of nursing at the Countess of Chester Hospital when Lucy Letby carried out her murderous attacks on babies has been suspended from her current role.
The mum of a baby murdered by Lucy Letby has told a court how the evil nurse only had one word for the parents of the seven babies she killed.
Lucy Letby has become one of few female murderers in the UK to receive a whole life sentence - meaning they will never be released from prison.
Nurse Lucy Letby will die behind bars after being found guilty of the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others. The judge told the nurse she acted "in a way that was completely contrary to the normal human instincts of nurturing and caring for babies", as he handed down his sentence at Manchester Crown Court this afternoon.
The father of two babies who Lucy Letby has been convicted of trying to kill said he was left feeling 'uneasy' and was forced to move out of her eyeline in court as she 'kept looking over' at him.