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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
National
Sarah Shamim

Baby murderer or scapegoat? Why is the Lucy Letby case so divisive?

An image taken from police bodycam footage shows the nurse Lucy Letby being arrested at her home in Chester on July 3, 2018 [Handout/Cheshire Constabulary via AFP]

In a case that still shocks the United Kingdom, a 34-year-old former neonatal nurse named Lucy Letby was convicted last year of murdering seven babies in a hospital in the northeast English city of Chester and trying to murder six more.

In the six years, two trials and two appeal applications since her arrest, opinion remains fractured on whether Letby actually committed the crimes at the Countess of Chester Hospital from 2015 to 2016 that she is serving rare 15 whole-life sentences for.

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