AGS NEWS – British nurse Lucy Letby has been found guilty of attempting to murder a baby girl.

The 34-year-old, already convicted of murdering Baby K, was previously sentenced to 14 life terms for killing seven babies and attempting to murder six others while working at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.

The jury, after nearly four hours of deliberation in a four-week retrial, found Letby guilty on July 2 of trying to murder the premature Baby K by dislodging her breathing tube 90 minutes after her birth.

This verdict came after an earlier jury failed to reach a decision in August.

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Prosecutors argued that Letby tampered with Baby K’s breathing tube multiple times during her shift to make it appear as if the baby was displacing the tube herself.

Consultant paediatrician Dr. Ravi Jayaram testified that he caught Letby standing by Baby K’s incubator without taking any action to help when the baby’s oxygen levels dropped.

Baby K was later transferred to a specialist hospital but died three days after her birth due to extreme prematurity and severe respiratory distress syndrome.

Despite denying the offenses and claiming no recollection of the events, Letby was found to have searched Baby K’s surname on Facebook almost two years later, a behavior the prosecution described as part of her pattern of fascination with the babies she harmed.

Senior Crown Prosecutor Nicola Wyn Williams highlighted Letby’s deliberate actions and the unimaginable grief suffered by Baby K’s family.

Letby will be sentenced for the attempted murder of Baby K on July 5 at Manchester Crown Court. A public inquiry into how Letby was able to commit her crimes is scheduled to begin in September.