the british nurse Lucy Letby33 years old, has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and the attempted murder of six others in a hospital in Chester (northwest England) between 2015 and 2016, the Manchester Crown Court reported this Friday.
During the trial, the evidence presented by the Prosecutor’s Office indicated that Letby ended the lives of the children, five boys and two girls injecting them with air with an intravenous syringe while working at the Countess of Chester Health Center.
The woman, who was already suspected of the crimes since 2018 -when she was first arrested-, she was arrested again in 2020 and charged by the police after receiving clearance from the Crown Prosecution Service, who brought 22 charges against her.
The case shocked the United Kingdom, especially since suspicions of the deaths of newborns began to be directed in 2018 on the nurse, who has become the most prolific murderer of children in the history of this country.
The aforementioned court also found her guilty of attempted murder of six other babies with methods that included, in addition to air injection, insulin poisoning or the administration of excessive amounts of food. The sentence will be announced on August 21.