Lucy Letby found GUILTY of murdering seven babies as jury deliver verdicts

Lucy Letby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies.

Verdicts have been delivered at Manchester Crown Court following a ten-month trial.

The 33-year-old, from Hereford, denied murdering seven babies and attempting to murder ten others in the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital.

However, the prosecution alleged she was a ‘constant malevolent’ presence at all the deaths and collapses between June 2015 and June 2016.

She was accused of forcing air into the bodies of babies, many of them born prematurely, and on two occasions poisoning babies with insulin. Ms Letby was also accused of physically attacking babies.

Her defence criticised the medical evidence against her as ‘tenuous in the extreme’, saying it relied on a 30-year-old research paper and ‘guesswork’.

A jury of eight women and four men were due to deliver their verdicts today and found Letby GUILTY of seven counts of murder. She was also found guilty of seven counts of attempted murder. The jury were unable to reach a decision on six counts of attempted murder.

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