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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Graham Russell

‘A cold, calculating killer’: how the papers covered Lucy Letby’s conviction

Saturday’s UK front pages after the conviction of nurse Lucy Letby over the murder of seven babies.
Saturday’s UK front pages after the conviction of nurse Lucy Letby over the murder of seven babies. Composite: The Guardian/Daily Mail/iweekend/Daily Express/The Times/Daily Telegraph

The conviction of nurse Lucy Letby for the “persistent, calculated and cold-blooded” murder of five premature boys and two newborn girls reverberates across today’s newspaper front pages, with some questioning whether she could have been stopped earlier.

The Guardian says “Britain’s worst child serial killer: nurse guilty of seven murders” alongside a large image of Letby, 33, and points to further stories including an interview with a whistleblower, who said the babies would have survived if hospital executives had acted earlier on concerns.

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