From student nurse to baby killer: A timeline of Lucy Letby's horrific crimes
18.08.2023 - 13:47
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Lucy Letby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies.
Following a 10-month trial, the nurse was convicted of the heinous crimes by a jury. The 33-year-old former neonatal nurse was convicted of seven murders and attempting to murder six others in the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital today (August 18).
She was not present as the verdicts were delivered. Here, the Manchester Evening News takes a look at the timeline of Letby's crimes - and when she was finally apprehended.
Lucy Letby begins her first shift as a student nurse at the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital on June 1, 2010. She qualified as a Band 5 nurse, able to look after infants in intensive care, in September 2011.
Prior to January 2015, the baby mortality rate at the neonatal unit (NNU) of the hospital was comparable with hospitals up and down the country. Over the next 18 months the number of baby deaths and collapses at the NNU rose significantly.
COUNT 1 MURDER
Baby A, one of twins, was born nine weeks premature and there were concerns he may have a blood disorder so he was admitted to the neonatal unit. He was otherwise in a healthy condition, however. Letby murdered him by surreptitiously administering air or another substance into his tiny body. Doctors who were called had never seen such skin discolouration on babies before. They would see it many more times over the next few months. Standard resuscitation techniques failed. Baby A died at 9pm on June 8, 2015 just 90 minutes after Letby had started her nightshift and took over care of the infant.
COUNT 2 ATTEMPT MURDER
Letby attempted to murder Baby B, Baby A’s twin sister. She collapsed 28 hours after the death of her brother. Experts told the jury she had
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