{"id":98280,"date":"2023-09-25T18:15:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T18:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turbocelebrity.com\/?p=98280"},"modified":"2023-09-25T18:15:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T18:15:48","slug":"why-is-lucy-letby-having-a-retrial-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turbocelebrity.com\/world-news\/why-is-lucy-letby-having-a-retrial-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Lucy Letby having a retrial? | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
LUCY Letby will face a retrial on a charge of attempting to murder a child, it has been announced.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old was found guilty in August 2023 of murdering seven babies in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Cheshire where she worked in 2015 and 2016.<\/p>\n
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Letby, 33, was given a whole life order when sentenced last month – meaning she would die behind bars.<\/p>\n
Only three other women have been given a\u00a0whole life terms in the UK – serial killers Rose West,\u00a0the late Moors Murderer\u00a0Myra Hindley\u00a0and\u00a0Joanna Dennehy.<\/p>\n
Jurors at her ten-month trial at Manchester Crown Court were unable to reach verdicts on six counts of attempted murder relating to five children.<\/p>\n
The Crown Prosecution Service said on September 25 2023 it would pursue a retrial on one of the outstanding charges.<\/p>\n
Letby, from Hereford, is accused of attempting to murder a baby girl, known as Child K, in February 2016.<\/p>\n She denied all the offences during her previous trial and earlier this month formally lodged an appeal against her convictions.<\/p>\n She appeared at the September 25 hearing via videolink from HMP New Hall, whose other inmates have included serial killer West who was transferred there in 2019.<\/p>\n Letby spoke only to confirm her name while sitting behind a desk in a conference room at the jail in Flockton, West Yorkshire.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n A provisional trial date was today set for June 10 2024, with an estimated length of two to three weeks.<\/p>\n The hearing was held at Manchester Crown Court where the retrial is also scheduled to take place.<\/p>\n The prosecution and the defence will offer evidence and have the opportunity to call witnesses on the charge Letby faces.<\/p>\n<\/picture>PRISON LIFE <\/span><\/p>\n
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Lucy Letby faces retrial for trying to kill one baby after murdering 7 others<\/h3>\n
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