Nurse Lucy Letby to be sentenced for murdering seven babies

Nurse Lucy Letby is owed to beryllium sentenced aboriginal aft being recovered blameworthy of murdering 7 babies, making her the UK's astir prolific kid serial slayer successful modern times.

The proceedings lasted for much than 10 months and is believed to beryllium the longest execution proceedings successful the UK.

She has indicated she volition not beryllium successful tribunal for the hearing.

Her ineligible squad said she besides does not privation to travel proceedings via a videolink from prison, the reasons for her non-attendance astatine Manchester Crown Court person not been disclosed.

Letby - who deliberately injected babies with air, unit fed others beverage and poisoned 2 of the infants with insulin betwixt June 2015 and June 2016 - refused to look successful the dock arsenic the latest verdicts were work retired connected Friday.

They had been delivered implicit respective hearings, but could not beryllium reported until each the verdicts were returned.

Letby, primitively of Hereford, broke down successful tears arsenic the archetypal blameworthy verdicts were work retired by the jury's foreman connected 8 August aft 76 hours of deliberations.

She cried with her caput bowed arsenic the 2nd acceptable of blameworthy verdicts were returned connected 11 August.

Families of victims said they volition "forever beryllium grateful" to jurors who had to beryllium done 145 days of "gruelling" evidence.

The suspect was recovered not blameworthy of 2 attempted execution charges and the assemblage was undecided connected further attempted execution charges relating to 4 babies.

Nicholas Johnson KC, prosecuting, asked the tribunal for 28 days to see whether a retrial would beryllium sought for the remaining six counts of attempted murder.

During the trial, which started successful October, the prosecution labelled Letby arsenic a "calculating and devious" opportunist who "gaslighted" colleagues to screen her "murderous assaults".

She was convicted pursuing a two-year probe by Cheshire Police into the alarming and unexplained emergence successful deaths and near-fatal collapses of premature babies astatine the hospital.