Prosecutors are set to decide today whether baby serial killer Lucy Letby will face a retrial for several outstanding allegations.
The former neo-natal nurse, 33, is currently serving a whole life sentence for murdering seven babies and trying to kill six more around seven years ago.
The jury in her trial at Manchester Crown Court however was last month unable to reach verdicts on six counts of attempted murder, in relation to five children.
The Crown Prosecution Service will today outline whether it will pursue another trial.
Letby was cleared of two counts of attempted murder, but the jury of seven women and four men could not decide whether she attempted to murder three baby girls and a baby boy.
They also could not reach verdicts over two counts of attempted murder against another baby boy, which she was found guilty of one count of attempted murder over.
The nurse, from Hereford, has denied all the allegations and has formally lodged an appeal against her convictions.
Police are now reviewing the notes of some 4,000 babies admitted to the neo-natal units of the Countess of Chester Hospital and Liverpool Women’s Hospital over Letby’s five-year nursing career.
The maternity unit in Cheshire saw a significant rise in the number of babies suffering unexpected and serious collapses around the time of Letby’s offending.
She was removed from the unit after the deaths of two triplet boys and the collapse of another baby boy three days in a row in June 2016.
Concerns among consultants were raised to hospital bosses around Letby’s presence when the collapses took place.
But the nurse registered a grievance procedure, which was resolved in her favour, and was due to return to the unit in 2017.
The move did not take place though, as soon after police were contacted by the hospital trust.
She was arrested at home in July 2018 and charged in the November.
Several experts have voiced worries that Letby may have had more victims in reality than she was convicted for.
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