"Nurse Lucy Letby Convicted of Serial Baby Murders in UK Hospital"

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"Nurse Lucy Letby Convicted of Serial Baby Murders in UK Hospital"
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Nurse Lucy Letby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others on a neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital in the UK. Letby deliberately injected babies with air, force fed others milk, and poisoned two infants with insulin. The 33-year-old was convicted following a two-year investigation into the rise in deaths and near-fatal collapses of premature babies at the hospital. Letby's defense argued that the deaths were the result of failures in care, but the prosecution described her as a "calculating and devious" opportunist.

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