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Lucy Letby, a 33-year-old British nurse, is suspected of the murders of seven newborn babies and ten other attempted murders in the hospital in which she worked between June 2015 and June 2016. A case that fascinates and terrifies the English who wait impatiently to know the verdict.
Lucy Letby, 33, whose trial started in October in Manchester (north-west England), is accused of having killed seven newborn babies while she was a nurse in the neonatology unit of the Countess Hospital of Chester between June 2015 and June 2016. She is also charged with ten other attempted murders.
Air injected into the veins of newborns
According to the prosecution, she killed them by injecting air into their veins or insulin into pouches of food solution. She is also accused of removing the tube allowing a premature baby girl to breathe. A “simple coincidence,” said his lawyer.
Lucy Letby claims her innocence
Since the beginning of the trial, whose debates have often been grueling, Lucy Letby has maintained her innocence, denying having killed or harmed newborns. During the trial, the prosecutor notably showed notes found by the police at the nurse’s. “I don’t deserve to live. I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough to take care of them. I’m a horrible bad person,” she wrote on a piece of paper. On other sheets found at her home, the nurse, arrested in July 2018, however proclaimed her innocence.
The jury, which withdrew Monday afternoon, should give its verdict during the day, by Wednesday at the latest. According to British media, she should be found guilty. Lucy Letby faces life imprisonment.