Lucy Letby to stand trial again in 2019 for attempted murder of baby girl

A court heard that Lucy Letby, who used to be a nurse, will have to go through another trial. She is being accused of trying to kill a baby girl.

A date for another trial has been tentatively scheduled for June of next year because the jury in her first trial couldn’t agree on a decision regarding six counts of trying to harm five children.

Letby, who is 33 years old, was given a life sentence after a jury found her guilty of killing seven babies and trying to kill six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s special care unit for newborns in 2015 and 2016.

It has been reported that the prosecution won’t ask for a new trial on the five counts of attempted murder that are still left.

The re-trial will not include the situations involving three baby girls known as Child H, Child J, and Child K, as well as two boys known as Child N and Child Q.

Today, at Manchester Crown Court, Nick Johnson, who represents the prosecution, stated that they plan to have a new trial for one of the charges, which is the attempted murder of Child K.

Letby, who is from Hereford, said she didn’t do anything wrong and filed an official request to challenge her guilty verdict at the Court of Appeal a few weeks ago.

The group of people who had to make a decision in her case, which included seven women and four men, could not agree on whether Letby tried to kill three baby girls, who were referred to as Child H, Child J, and Child K in the court papers.