Lucy Letby: how the nurse’s trial unfolded and timeline of events

We review the the trial and investigation, after the nurse was sentenced for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others at Countess of Chester Hospital

After a ten-month trial, nurse Lucy Letby will now spend her whole life in prison after being found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others at a hospital neonatal unit.

The murders and attempted murders took place while Ms Letby worked on the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.

Neonatal unit records increase in deaths and collapses of babies

During that one-year period there