Lucy Letby jury can return majority verdicts, judge rules

Jurors deliberating successful the execution proceedings of caregiver Lucy Letby tin instrumentality bulk verdicts, a justice has ruled.

Ms Letby is accused of murdering 7 babies and attempting to termination 10 others astatine Countess of Chester Hospital betwixt June 2015 and June 2016.

The assemblage has heard 9 months of evidence, including claims Ms Letby deliberately injected babies with aerial and poisoned immoderate with insulin.

The 7 women and 4 men person been deliberating for 15 days.

Judge Mr Justice James Goss said the caller absorption means they volition person to hold by 10-1 connected immoderate counts that are not unanimous.

A 12th juror was antecedently incapable to proceed and discharged for "good idiosyncratic reasons".

Ms Letby, 33, primitively from Hereford, has denied each the charges against her.