The babies were attacked Betweenjune 2015 and and june 2016. She was charged with 22 counts of attempting babies in her care. Some were injected with air. Others were force fed milk. The Crown Prosecution Service announced on the steps that they weapon eyes to her craft as a nurse. The trial has considered harrowing evidence from. They watched that children die and often harrowing circumstances. The families are very much at the forefront of peoples mines here at court today. Lucy letby was herself in the Court Building was not present in the dock to hear the final verdict delivered. When the first vertex work delivered several days ago, she was present. She sobbed at the dock at one point put her head on the desk and cried. But for the last couple of days, even though she has been here in the Holding Cells at Manchester Crown court, she refused to come and sit in the dock for the conclusion of her trial. She will be sentenced on monday in thejudge her trial. She will be sentenced on m
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they kept going, pressurising executives to call the police, something the trust did eventually in 2017. protecting the reputation of the organisation was a big factor in how people responded to the concerns raised. they were dragged kicking and screaming, the executive team, to call in the police. that would certainly be the conclusion that i would reach. at the time letby was arrested in july 2018, she was still working at the trust. no disciplinary action had been taken against her. the strong opinion was that nothing would be found. there was a brief overlap of three or four days between myself and the outgoing medical director, and his parting words to me, to my surprise, were, you need to refer the paediatricians to the gmc. they were not referred to the general medical council. instead, all the executives who doubted the doctors and supported lucy letby left the countess of chester trust. they all refused to comment ahead of tofay s verdict. michael buchanan, bbc news, cheshir
this is the moment police arrested lucy letby in chester. she s now the most profilic child killer in modern british history. the government launches an independent inquiry into letby s crimes and how concerns raised at the time were handled. hello. you re watching bbc news coming live from manchester. i m anna foster. here in the uk, nurse lucy letby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others at a hospital in chester.
his hand. and then. ..we had a conversation with the consultant, and they said they were going to stop, because it s not helping, and we want him to die in your arms. 0n the unit, there were typically up to three deaths a year, but in 2015, they had that number in the month ofjune alone. and the pattern continued, with babies dying or coming close to death. the common factor lucy letby. this staffing sheet shows she was the only employee who was present every time there was a suspicious event. dr stephen brearey led the team of seven consultants on the unit who shared joint concerns about letby. he s now speaking publicly about their experience for the first time. it s something that nobody