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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
George Lithgow

Letby motivated by pathological desire for attention, expert says

PA Wire

Murderer nurse Lucy Letby may have been motivated to kill by a “pathological desire for attention and sympathy”, a criminology expert has said.

After a 10-month trial and weeks of deliberation, a jury found her guilty of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six others at the Countess of Chester hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.

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