2023-08-22 03:01:00
The Justice of Great Britain sentenced in the last hours a neonatal nurse to life imprisonment, without the possibility of release. This is Lucy Letby, who was found guilty of murdering seven newborns in the hospital where she worked and of having tried to kill another six.
Letby, 33, worked as a neonatology nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital in north-west England. There, between 2015 and 2016, she killed seven babies under her care.
But that was not all, Lucy also tried to kill six other newborns.
As the prosecution could verify, the nurse killed the babies by injecting them with air with a syringe. This was not the only method she used to commit the crimes, she also used nasogastric tubes and administered over doses of milk to the babies.
James Goss, the Manchester Crown Court judge who sentenced her, claimed the woman acted with “premeditation and calculation”.
For this reason, this Monday he sentenced her to life imprisonment, with no possibility of escape, a rare sentence in English law. Letby, who had been found guilty of the murders on Friday, was not present in the courtroom where he was sentenced to life in prison today.
How did the nurse act?
During the trial, the mother of one of the murdered babies said that she once went to the neonatology area to bring milk to one of her premature twins, who was admitted to the Countess of Chester Hospital.
She heard her baby scream, and when she got closer, she saw that there was blood around its mouth. However, Nurse Letby calmed her down and told her to go back to her room.
The prosecution found that the nurse had inserted a medical device all the way down the baby’s throat and injected air into it. The baby died a few hours later.
Letby would attack babies when their parents were not around, usually at night or when she was alone because the area charge nurse was away.
After the attacks, he even participated in resuscitation efforts for his victims and wrote letters to grieving parents.
How the crimes were discovered
In June 2015, hospital paediatricians raised concerns about the number of infant deaths in the neonatology department, many of them described as “unexplained” or “unexpected”.
Two years later, in May 2017, an investigation into the deaths of 15 babies was opened, later expanded to include more cases.
Letby was detained in 2018 and 2019 but was released without charge as the nurse had managed to mislead her colleagues and convinced them that those deaths were “just a run of bad luck”.
Finally, after the evidence collected against her, in November 2020 she was imprisoned.
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