The Latest Breaking News from Lucy Letby

Prosecutors put forward several possible motives as to why Letby murdered babies

“The trial of Lucy Letby will be remembered as one of the longest and most complex cases in English legal history,” said Tom Ball in The Times. Twenty-two charges were brought against her, relating to 17 babies in the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital during 2015 and…

Ministers initially ignored calls by victims’ families for inquiry that would be able to force witnesses to give evidence

Revealed: NHS bosses accused of ‘protecting’ killer nurse appointed to investigate warnings from whistleblowers doctors

The recent conviction of Lucy Letby, the neonatal nurse who murdered seven infants and attempted to murder six others while working at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015-2016, has raised fundamental questions about how something like this could have happened – and why it took so long to stop…

Bereaved families want full legal powers for the probe

Warning: distressing content. Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six more

Letby, 33, was sentenced to a whole-life term on Monday for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murders of six more.

Supporters of serial killer Lucy Letby have launched an appeal to fund her defence calling the nurse’s trial the “greatest miscarriage of justice that the UK has ever witnessed”.