Episode 2300
Lucy Letby
Sun, 2023-Aug-20 01:13 UTC
Length - 2:10
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With 231,650 views on Saturday, 19 August 2023 our article of the day is Lucy Letby.
Lucy Letby (born 4 January 1990) is a British serial killer and former neonatal nurse. From 2015 to 2016, she murdered, or attempted to murder, a total of thirteen infants under her care.
Letby was arrested in July 2018 in connection with a series of unusually frequent infant deaths between June 2015 and June 2016 at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, where she had worked as a neonatal nurse since 2011. After being released on bail, she was rearrested in June 2019 and again in November 2020 in connection with additional infant deaths at the hospital. The day following her final arrest, she was charged with eight counts of murder and ten counts of attempted murder. At the conclusion of her trial, which lasted from October 2022 to August 2023, she was found guilty of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder six others during the twelve-month period. She is scheduled to be sentenced on 21 August.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:13 UTC on Sunday, 20 August 2023.
For the full current version of the article, see Lucy Letby on Wikipedia.
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