A British nurse who was found guilty in August of killing seven babies and trying to kill six others has renewed her appeal of those convictions.
Lucy Letby, 34, received 14 life sentences for crimes she carried out as a neonatal nurse at Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016. A judge denied her initial bid to appeal shortly after her convictions last year, but The Guardian reported that she has since asked three senior judges in London to review her appeal.
Letby’s trial lasted for 10 months. In her appeal, Letby claimed the trial judge wrongly denied her lawyers’ motions.
During her trial, it was revealed that Letby injected air into the victims’ bloodstream and gave them insulin. It was also revealed how she killed two of three triplet boys.
In another instance, the former nurse tried to kill a premature baby girl three times before successfully doing so. Afterward, she sent a sympathy card to the victim’s parents. Medical experts determined that the premature girl did not die of natural causes.
A pediatric consultant said he stopped Letby from killing a 98-minute-old baby, who was also born prematurely. The consultant caught Letby standing over the incubator as the baby’s oxygen levels plummeted. The consultant found the baby’s breathing tube was dislodged and that an alarm had been silenced.
Letby did not help the baby or seek backup. The consultant said he was already uneasy with Letby being alone with the preemie as he “started to notice a coincidence between unexplained deaths, serious collapses,” and Letby’s presence.
In June, Letby will be retried on an attempted murder charge that the jury could not decide on at her initial trial. The BBC reported that a public inquiry into the slayings at Countess of Chester Hospital is ongoing, and hearings are scheduled to begin in the fall.
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