Lucy Letby was convicted of seven murders and seven attempted murders on Friday . She was found guilty of murdering seven newborns and the attempted murders of six others . Letby is the most prolific child serial killer in modern British history . The families of the babies killed by the nurse spoke of their search for answers .
The parents of the twin boys who Letby tried to murder revealed the turmoil that they had been through going from the euphoria of the birth to the horror of seeing staff fight to keep their children alive . They did not realise what had happened until the police contacted them about two years later .
The government has ordered an independent inquiry including how concerns raised by clinicians were dealt with by Letby . The victims included twins and in one case she killed two siblings on consecutive days . The youngest baby she murdered was just a day old.
The oldest was weeks old a baby girl who she attacked four times before succeeding in succeeding in killing her. Letby attacked a babygirl who was just weeks old. She was acquitted of two charges of attempted murder while jurors could not agree on six other suspected attacks .
Police are reviewing the charges at the Countess of Chester Hospital and Liverpool Womens Hospital where she had spent part of her career at the time of the murders . Police said there is nothing that has been unusual in any of the other victims. The investigation into Letby’ve found nothing that was unusual for a woman’s death.
She has been described as ‘unusual.’. She had a healthy and there was nothing that we have found anything that we’re investigating. The police are reviewing there are there. There was nothing. There is nothing unusual. There were there.