Death of Seven Children In Countess Of Chester Hospital: British Nurse Found Guilty

A British nurse, Lucy Letby, has been found guilty and convicted of murdering seven babies. Letby 33, was also found guilty of attempted murder of six more children between 2015 and 2016.  

The nurse, now christened Britain's most prolific baby serial killer or worst baby serial killer in recent times, committed the offence at the neonatal ward of the Countess of Chester hospital, where she worked at the time. 

All the deaths and near deaths occurred during her shifts. However, things took an interesting turn when two of a healthy triplet died suddenly. 

Manchester Crown Court document say Nurse Letby harmed the babies in her care by injecting air into their blood and stomach, physically assaulting them and literally poisoning them with insulin. 

A statement by Britain's Crown Prosecution noted that "She secretly attacked 13 babies on the neonatal ward at the Countess of Chester hospitalbetween 2015 and 2016. 

It added that her intention was to kill the babies while duping her colleagues into believing there was a natural cause of death.

Documents also indicate that doctors at the hospital began noticing a steep rise in mortality and unexpected collapsing of babies to which they had no medical explanation, prompting the police to open an investigation

Between 2018 and 2019, police arrested Letby twice and picked up once more in November 2020.

While searching her address, authorities found diaries and other notes written by her. In at least one of them, she reportedly claim she was not deserving of life. 

“I don’t deserve to live. I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough to care for them. I am a horrible evil person," she wrote.

“I am evil I did this,” she added in capital letters. 

While reacting to the indictment, Pascale Jones of the CPS, referred to her actions as a “complete betrayal of the trust placed in her.”

“Lucy Letby sought to deceive her colleagues and pass off the harm she caused as nothing more than a worsening of each baby’s existing vulnerability,” she said.

“In her hands, innocuous substances like air, milk, fluids or medication like insulin, would become lethal. She perverted her learning and weaponised her craft to inflict harm, grief and death.”

Victims’ families said they “may never truly know why this happened.”

“Justice has been served and the nurse who should have been caring for our babies has been found guilty of harming them,” a joint statement said, according to PA.

“But this justice will not take away from the extreme hurt, anger and distress that we have all had to experience.”

Nurse Letby is expected to be sentenced on August 21 to be sentenced on August 21