The verdict, following a 10-month trial at Manchester Crown Court, makes Lucy Letby one of Britain's most prolific serial child killers.

KEY POINTS

  • 33-year-old Lucy Letby was convicted on Friday of killing seven babies in the neonatal unit of a hospital in England.

  • A handwritten note found by police officers who searched her home after the arrest read “I killed them on purpose”.

  • Letby will be sentenced on Monday and faces a very long prison term, and possibly a rare full life sentence.

        • jtk@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          1414·
          1 year ago

          I’m not some huge fan of the death penalty. There’s a hefty line, but this is WAY past it.

            • Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.worldEnglish
              135·
              1 year ago

              Wait I’m confused are there actually people who think she didn’t do this? I looked at the evidence it’s pretty f****** clear she killed like a bunch of babies. Like how much of a psychopath do you have to be to kill a baby not only a baby, preemies. The most defenseless of defenseless, like are you for real or are you just like joshing and having a laugh, are you for real?

              • DDNB@lemmy.worldEnglish
                125·
                1 year ago

                Oh YOU looked at the evidence? Ok, nothing more to do here boys, time to shut down the courts and legal institutions, we found a much better way to do things. Why haven’t we thought about contacting you sooner?

                You think there is no deception possible in this world? Imagine you killed someone and afterwards it turns out a mistake was made in the process?

                • Nythos@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  75·
                  1 year ago

                  Dude what?

                  There’s a note in her handwriting admitting she did it.

                  All the babies that died, died whilst she was on shift at a infinitely higher rate than what was normal

                  The text messages on her phone link to the dates of when the babies were killed.

                  People can often be locked up or sentenced under some pretty circumstantial evidence, but that is not the case here.

            • jtk@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              22·
              1 year ago

              Then she was looking to end her life anyway. Used a rather round about method to pull it off, but it was her choice.