(London) British nurse Lucy Letby, sentenced in August 2023 to life in prison for killing seven newborns, returned to court on Wednesday for attempted murder of another little girl in the hospital where she was working.
Lucy Letby, 34, is accused of attempting to kill a premature newborn, referred to in court as “Baby K”, at the Countess of Chester Hospital in the northwest of England in February 2016.
Prosecutor Nick Johnson claimed the former nurse was “virtually caught in the act” by a pediatrician while she was moving the newborn’s breathing tube.
She has no possibility of appealing this judgment, the British courts ruled at the end of May.
At the end of the first trial, however, the jury had not reached a verdict on six other attempted murders with which she was accused. Hence this new procedure concerning one of them, “Baby K”, which should last two to three weeks.
Lucy Letby, who sat in the dock on Wednesday, denies trying to kill the infant.
“It is important to emphasize that the previous convictions do not prove this accusation,” defended his lawyer Ben Myers.
The prosecutor, for his part, called on the jury not to forget the nurse’s previous convictions when rendering their decision.
This young woman, whose motivations have to date never been clarified, worked in the intensive care unit of the Countess of Chester hospital, in the northwest of England.
Between June 2015 and June 2016, Lucy Letby injected air intravenously into premature newborns, using their nasogastric tubes to send air or an overdose of milk into their stomachs.
The nurse attacked the newborns after their parents had left, when the nurse in charge moved away, or at night when she was alone. She then sometimes joined collective efforts to save these infants, and even assisted desperate parents.
