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Lucy Letby British Nurse, Convicted of Killing 7 Babies (Part Two) · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Crossed pulmonary arteries, a structural abnormality, and there was also a strong temporal
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  relationship between the insertion of the long line and the collapse. The pathologist determined
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  the cause of death as unascertained. The following day, a mother diagnosed with
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  a dangerous placenta condition delivered a baby boy weighing one pound twelve ounces, just
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  on the cusp of the weight limit for the unit to treat. Within four
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  days, the baby developed severe pneumonia. Let Be was not on duty in
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  the intensive care nursery where the baby was being cared for, but she entered
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  the room to assist when the child's oxygen alarm sounded. Despite the efforts of
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  the unit's staff, the baby could not be saved. A pathologist determined that
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  the baby had died of natural causes. Several days later, a woman arrived
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  at the hospital after her water broke. She was sent home and instructed to
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  wait over. Twenty four hours later, she noticed reduced fetal movements. I
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  was worried about infection because I hadn't received any antibiotics, she later stated.
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  Upon returning to the hospital, she still did not receive antibiotics and felt neglected
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  by the staff, really, she said. Sixty hours after her water broke,
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  she underwent a sea section. The baby, a girl who appeared dusky
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  and limp at birth, should have been promptly treated with antibiotics, as doctors
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  later admitted. However, nearly four hours passed before she received the medication.
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  The following night, the baby's oxygen alarm sounded, called staff nurse let Be
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  for assistance. A nurse documented the baby's condition continued to deteriorate throughout the night
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  and could not be revived. A pathologist discovered pneumonia in the baby's lungs and
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  concluded that the infection was likely present at birth. We lost her. Let
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  Be texted a close friend, I'll call Margaret, a shift leader on the
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  unit. Margaret had meant toed let Be when she was a student training on
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  the ward. What but she was improving? Margaret replied, what happened?
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  Wan a chat, I can't believe you were on again. You're having such
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  a tough time. Let Be told Margaret that the circumstances of the death might
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  be investigated. What the delay in treatment? Just over all? She said,
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  and reviewing what antibiotic she was on, et cetera. If it is
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  sepsis. Let Be wrote that she was still in shock, feel a bit
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  numb. Lucy let Be, a former British neonatal nurse, has been found
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  guilty of murdering seven infants under her a case that has captured the attention of
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  the public and the international media. Despite her unsuccessful attempts to appeal the verdicts,
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  various experts have raised concerns regarding the evidence used to convict let Be.
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  Let Be, who was convicted of killing seven newborn infants and attempting to kill
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  seven others in two separate trials, was found guilty on fifteen out of twenty
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  two possible counts. The retrial was conducted after the initial jury was unable to
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  reach a verdict on one of the attempted murder charges. Working as a nurse
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  at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, England, Letby was accused of
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  committing the alleged crimes between twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen. Despite her consistent denial
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  of any wrongdoing. She was sentenced to life in prison and her appeals were
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  recently rejected by the court. Several investigative reports have raised questions about the evidence
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  presented during let Be's murder trial, suggesting that there may be doubts surrounding the
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  convictions. Both The Telegraph and The Guardian have both reported on additional neonatal deaths
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  that occurred during the same time period, for which let Be was not charged.
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  These deaths were not included in the chart, and let Be was not
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  on duty at the time, according to the reports. David Wilson, a
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  criminology professor emeritus at Birmingham City University, stated to the Telegraph that he believes
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  the information on the chart was selectively chosen. During Letb's trial, prosecutors also
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  highlighted handwritten notes discovered in her residence, in which she confessed to intentionally killing
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  the babies and described herself as evil. Medical experts also testified that the infants
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  who were harmed either suffered from an embolism caused by air injection or were poisoned
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  with insulin. Doctor Dewey Evans, a consultant pediatrician, was the main witness
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  for the prosecution during Letby's initial trial. As reported by the Guardian, he
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  conducted an analysis of the cases of the babies that Letby was accused of harming.
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  According to the reports, Evans theory on air embolism was partly based on
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  a nineteen eighty nine paper that examined air embolisms in numerous newborns, which found
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  that the embolisms caused skin discolouration observed in some of the babies in Evans's analysis.
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  However, doctor Schulee, one of the paper's co authors, testified during
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  Letbe's appeal, but not at her first trial. He spoke to both The
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  Guardian and the Telegraph disputing the prosecution's claim that the discolouration found in the babies
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  indicated an air embolism. Lee stated that, in his opinion, the discolourations did know