Her case shocked public opinion in the UK. And today comes a turning point: Lucy Letbya 32-year-old nurse from the “Countess of Chester Hospital” in Chester, went to the dock accused of murdering seven babies, including five boys and two girls.
The disputed facts would have occurred between March 2015 and July 2016, a period in which babies died in the neonatal ward of Chester Hospital in circumstances defined as “mysterious” by the media across the Channel.
As it turned out, it seems that none of them had any previous pathology and all would die of sudden breakdowns. The young Hereford health worker is also charged with the attempted murder of ten other children. For reasons related to the protection of privacy, the names of the victims or their families were not released.
the nurse went she has been arrested by the police three times, in 2018 and 2019: in both cases she was released due to insufficient evidence. On the third, in November 2020, she was held in custody at Peterborough Women’s Prison. From here, she appeared in the video link in front of the Manchester Crown Court for the first time in a preliminary hearing. Letby has always firmly denied any accusations against him.
The trial began at 10:00 am this morning at Manchester Courthouse, where the defendant appeared to confirm his name. The woman’s parents, John and Susan, aged 76 and 62, respectively, attended the first hearing in the same room where the victims’ parents and journalists were present. The next hearing is scheduled for October 6th. The trial is expected to be long and the sentence will not arrive until March 2023.
Source: Fan Page IT
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