She was convicted of murdering seven babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital
Killer nurse Lucy Letby joins a grim list of medical professionals who exploited their position to harm the vulnerable patients they were supposed to care for.
She also added insulin as a poison to intravenous feeds, interfered with breathing tubes and inflicted trauma in some cases. Letby, from Hereford, denied all the allegations as she gave evidence in the witness box at Manchester Crown Court for 14 days during the trial, which began last October.
After killing himself in prison in 2004, an official inquiry established that the extent of Shipman's crimes was far greater than initially thought and it estimated he had killed 250 people.In a case with disturbing echoes of Letby's crimes, Beverley Allitt is currently serving 13 life sentences - one for each of the children she murdered or attempted to murder as a paediatric nurse in the 1990s.
It was established that Allitt was the only nurse on duty during the medical episodes and she was found guilty of four counts of murder, three of attempted murder, and a further six of grievous bodily harm in 1993. Allitt, now 54, is currently imprisoned at Rampton Secure Hospital in Nottinghamshire.Colin Norris, from Glasgow, was another nurse convicted of killing patients.
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