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No New Charges for Lucy Letby Over Baby Deaths
5 Aug
Summary
- Families' challenge to CPS decision not to charge Letby fails.
- CPS upheld original decision not to bring new murder charges.
- Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill seven others.
Families of infants reportedly harmed by former nurse Lucy Letby have failed to secure new charges against her.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) previously decided not to pursue additional murder and attempted murder charges concerning nine babies, two of whom died. The CPS stated that the legal evidential test for these new charges was not met.
Following this initial decision, families of six of the nine affected babies utilized the Victims' Right to Review scheme to challenge the outcome. An extensive review by an independent prosecutor has now upheld the original CPS decision.
Lucy Letby, 36, was convicted in 2024 for the murders of seven infants and the attempted murders of seven others. These crimes occurred at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016. She received 15 whole life terms and an examination of earlier infant collapses and deaths in Chester and Liverpool was announced by Cheshire Police.
