Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven newborn babies and attempting to kill six others . She will be sentenced on Monday afternoon at Manchester Crown Court . Letby is the UK’s most prolific child serial killer in modern history . She was arrested following a string of baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital in northwest England between June and June .
The prosecution said Letby attacked her young and often prematurely born victims by either injecting them with air or overfeeding them with milk or poisoning them with insulin . She fought back tears in the dock as the jury returned their first guilty decisions earlier in August .
The judge is expected to pass the sentence on Monday after more than hours of deliberations on Friday . The families of Letby victims said in a joint statement last week that while justice has been served it will not take away from the extreme hurt anger and distress that weve all had to experience .
The UK government has announced an independent enquiry into the case and will look at how the hospitals executives have come under fire for failing to act sooner on concerns about Letby which were reportedly raised by senior doctors as early as . Hospital executives have been under fire .
Hospital bosses have been criticised for not taking action sooner on Letby as Letby’s hospital bosses have failed to act immediately to act on their concerns about the hospital’s failure to act after concerns were raised by Letby were reported by doctors as well as senior doctors .
The hospitals executives were under fire. Letby has been accused of failing to take action. The hospitals bosses have come into account for not acting. The UK Government has announced that Letby’s failure to respond to Letby.
