Jailed UK baby killer Lucy Letby will not face new charges, prosecutors say


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  • Wednesday, 21 Jan 2026

Former British nurse and convicted child serial killer Lucy Letby appears by video link during an appeal against her conviction for trying to murder a newborn baby, at the Court of Appeal in London, Britain, October 24, 2024, in this courtroom sketch. Courtesy of Julia Quenzler/Handout via REUTERS

LONDON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - British prosecutors said ‌on Tuesday they would not bring any new charges of murder or attempted murder ‌against convicted baby killer Lucy Letby, who is already serving a life sentence ‌for the deaths of seven infants.

Letby, 36, was convicted of killing the newborns and attempting to murder seven others between June 2015 and June 2016 while working in the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital in northern ‍England, making her Britain's most prolific serial child killer ‍in modern times.

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