To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video Lucy Letby has been sentenced to another life order for the attempted murder of a baby girl at the Countess of Chester hospital. The child serial killer, 34, was found guilty at Manchester Crown Court of the murder of baby known as Child K after the newborn was attacked at the hospital in February 2016. It comes after another jury failed to reach a verdict on the allegation concerning the baby girl.
But the second jury took less than four hours to convict the nurse. She is already serving 14 whole life terms for the seven murder and seven attempted murders, with two bids to kill one child, at the neo-natal unit between June 2015 and June 2016. Letby denied she had harmed Child K, adding that she had not committed any of the offences she had been convicted of.
At the sentencing, the devastated mother of Child K read her victim impact statement. She told the court their world ‘fell apart’ the day their baby girl died, changing their lives ‘forever,’ the Chester Standard reports. She said it was ‘unthinkable’ someone could hurt Child K and that the pain of losing a child ‘never stops hurting.
’ The mother said that going through the retrial was ‘heart-wrenching’ but the family had to do it so that their ‘little girl had a voice.’ She told the killer nurse: ‘You, Lucy Letby, will never hurt another child.’ The mum added that the death of their ba.
