MADRID, (EUROPE PRESS). British nurse Lucy Letby has been found guilty by a British jury of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others at a hospital in the English town of Chester, despite the woman’s efforts to deny any responsibility for these deaths.
Letby, 33, denied the 22 charges against her and blamed the deaths of the newborns on the hospital itself, particularly poor hygiene or a lack of staff. However, for the Prosecutor’s Office there was no other explanation for the deaths than the intervention of the nurse, who will hear the sentence on Monday, reports a Manchester court.
It acted on especially vulnerable, premature or sick children, with a series of abuses that occurred between June 2015 and the same month the following year. She letby her took advantage when she was alone and, in some cases, she tried several times to kill the babies, if a first intervention was not enough for her.
Thus, it has been shown that she injected babies with air, milk or insulin, among other products that would end up being “lethal” for children, as pointed out by prosecutor Pascale Jones, who has also accused the nurse of addressing families with “morbid curiosity” and “false compassion”, according to the BBC.
Letby was not removed from her post until the death of two triplets and another baby on three consecutive days. Initially, she was relegated to administrative work and appealed the transfer, thanks to which she should have returned to the neonatal unit in March 2017 if the hospital had not contacted the Police then.
Subsequent investigations led to a first arrest of the nurse in July 2018. In subsequent searches at her home, the agents located several notes in which she veiledly acknowledged criminal actions that, in the eyes of the Prosecutor’s Office, served as written confession.
The jury, however, has not agreed on Letby’s guilt in six other attempted murders that were also examined and has acquitted her in two more cases.
