Baby serial killer Lucy Letby has been stripped of her nursing credentials after a panel ordered she be struck off from the register at a Nursing and Midwifery Council hearing in Stratford.
Letby did not oppose a bid to strike her from the nursing register but maintained her innocence, the panel in east London was told on Tuesday.
The 33-year-old was sentenced to 14 whole-life orders for the murder of seven babies and attempted murder of six others.
Letby's crimes happened on the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit, where she worked, between June 2015 and June 2016. She used various ways to harm the babies including injecting air into the bloodstream, injecting air into the stomach, overfeeding with milk, physical assaults and poisoning with insulin.
A Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) hearing was told that she had ticked “yes” when asked in a tick-box exercise whether she accepted the organisation’s charges.
But she added: “I do not wish to take part or be present at the hearing. I do not resist the application to strike me off the nursing register.
“I accept the fact of the convictions. However, I do not accept that I am guilty of any of the allegations.
“I maintain my innocence in respect of all of the convictions.
“These convictions are now the subject of an appeal.”
At a fitness to practice hearing in east London on Tuesday, the NMC’s representative Christopher Scott said it was “a matter of legal fact” that Letby was convicted of seven counts each of murder and attempted murder at Manchester Crown Court in August.
Mr Scott said that the panel should impair her fitness to practise for public protection and that a failure to do so “would invoke a crisis in public confidence”.
“The harm that she caused is so egregious, the lack of insight and remorse that she demonstrated so striking, that the finding of impairment is necessary,” he said.
Letby, from Hereford, denied all the offences she was charged with and formally lodged an appeal against her convictions at the Court of Appeal earlier this year.
A court order prohibits reporting of the identities of the surviving and dead children who were the subject of the allegations.
She also faces a retrial next June for one count of attempted murder.
Separately, detectives from Cheshire Constabulary are carrying out an investigation into corporate manslaughter at the hospital.
