Lucy Letby, the British nurse already convicted of murdering seven babies, could face further charges over allegations referring to deaths and other incidents at hospitals where she worked, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Letby, 35, is already serving life in jail and won’t ever be released after being found guilty of murdering and attempting to murder newborns, and attempting to kill eight more on the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital in northern England between June 2015 and June 2016.
During her trial in 2023, the court heard that she abused babies in her care by overfeeding them with milk, administering air into their blood and stomachs, poisoning them with insulin and physically assaulting them.
Letby has maintained her innocence your entire time.
Court artist drawing by Elizabeth Cook dated June 24, 2024, of Lucy Letby giving evidence during her trial at Manchester Crown Court in England.
Elizabeth Cook / PA via AP
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) confirmed on Wednesday that it was considering further charges against Letby over alleged crimes on the Countess of Chester Hospital and the Liverpool Women’s Hospital.
The Cheshire Police force told the BBC it had “submitted a full file of evidence to the CPS for charging advice,” nonetheless, the number or exact nature of the potential latest offences shouldn’t be yet known.
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A CPS spokesperson told the BBC: “We are going to now rigorously consider the evidence to find out whether any further criminal charges must be brought.
“As at all times, we are going to make that call independently, based on the evidence and in keeping with our legal test.”
Since Letby was jailed, some lawmakers and medical examiners have publicly challenged the prosecution’s evidence that was used to search out her guilty, with some experts querying whether any babies had actually been murdered in any respect.
The Criminal Cases Review Commission, which examines potential miscarriages of justice, is currently considering an application from Letby’s legal team. Her lawyer, Mark McDonald, said on Wednesday that the evidence of her innocence was “overwhelming.”
“We are going to cross every bridge once we get to it but when Lucy is charged I do know we now have a complete army of internationally renowned medical examiners who will totally undermine the prosecution’s unfounded allegations,” McDonald said in an announcement.
In an unrelated development, detectives said on Tuesday they’d arrested three unnamed senior members of the Countess of Chester Hospital’s leadership team as a part of their separate investigation into individuals and the Chester hospital itself.
“Each the company manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter elements of the investigation are continuing, and there aren’t any set timescales for these,” said Det. Supt. Paul Hughes, who’s leading the investigation.
In line with officials, the three staff members all worked on the hospital concurrently Letby. All three were released on bail after being questioned Monday.
The CPS said it had not yet been asked to contemplate any charges in relation to the investigation into the staff or the hospital itself.
— With files from Reuters
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