Nurse convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others at Countess of Chester hospital between 2015 and 2016
told the court the CPS would need 28 days to decide whether to seek a retrial on the six counts of attempted murder on which jurors were unable to reach verdicts. They relate to three baby girls and two newborn boys.
She did her utmost to conceal her crimes, by varying the ways in which she repeatedly harmed babies in her care. She sought to deceive her colleagues and pass off the harm she caused as nothing more than a worsening of each baby’s existing vulnerability. The nurse, who was in her mid-20s when she carried out the attacks, is expected to become only the third woman alive to be handed a whole-life term – meaning she will never be released from prison – when she is sentenced on Monday.A neonatal nurse has been named as the worst child serial killer in modern UK history, after being convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six more.
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