Serial killer nurse Lucy Letby will face NO new criminal charges as families of six more babies lose bid after review

SERIAL killer nurse Lucy Letby will face no further criminal charges after the families of six more babies failed in a bid to overturn a decision not to prosecute her again. Letby, 35, is serving 15 whole-life orders for murdering seven babies in a year-long reign of terror. Letby was convicted of the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of seven more Credit: PA The deaths occurred between 2015 and 2016 Credit: Getty The nurse also tried to kill seven others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016 – but her case is at the centre of a high-profile miscarriage of justice campaign. The latest allegations are related to six more infant collapses at the hospital and Liverpool Women’s Hospital, where the former neonatal nurse was previously employed. Sign up for The Sun newsletter Thank you! In November 2024, the Crown Prosecution Service disclosed that it was considering further charges against the 36-year-old, who is currently serving a whole-life order. But the CPS ruled in January that no new charges would be brought over potential offences of attempted murder and murder involving nine children, including two who died, because the evidential test was not met. Six families subsequently requested an official review of the decisions concerning their children under the Victims’ Right to Review scheme. However, an extensive review by an independent prosecutor has now upheld the original decision to bring no further charges against the former nurse. The killer nurse has twice failed to appeal her convictions Credit: SWNS Letby being arrested is now serving 15 whole-life orders Malcolm McHaffie, head of the CPS’s special crime division said: “In January 2026, after reviewing a file of evidence from Cheshire Constabulary, we decided that no further criminal charges should be brought against Lucy Letby, 36, relating to deaths and non-fatal collapses of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital and Liverpool Women’s Hospital. “The Crown Prosecution Service subsequently received requests in relation to six infants for the decisions to be reviewed under the Victims’ Right to Review (VRR) scheme. Most read in The Sun “An extensive review of the case by a prosecutor independent of the original decisions, involving a re-examination of substantial evidence and material, has now been completed. “Six offences of attempted murder were reconsidered in relation to six babies, but the review upheld the original decision not to bring any further criminal charges. “The Crown Prosecution Service has written to the families involved and will offer meetings to answer any further questions. “Our thoughts remain with them.” Letby is serving 15 whole-life orders, following two trials in 2023 and 2024. However, since her sentencing, there’s been growing feeling amongst many experts that her convictions were “unsafe”, and she could have been the victim of a miscarriage of justice. The charges Letby has been convicted of in full Child A, allegation of murder. The Crown said Letby injected air intravenously into the bloodstream of the baby boy. COUNT 1 GUILTY. Child B, allegation of attempted murder. The Crown said Letby attempted to murder the baby girl, the twin sister of Child A, by injecting air into her bloodstream. COUNT 2 GUILTY. Child C, allegation of murder. Prosecutors said Letby forced air down a feeding tube and into the stomach of the baby boy. COUNT 3 GUILTY. Child D, allegation of murder. The Crown said air was injected intravenously into the baby girl. COUNT 4 GUILTY. Child E, allegation of murder. The Crown said Letby murdered the twin baby boy with an injection of air into the bloodstream and also deliberately caused bleeding to the infant. COUNT 5 GUILTY. Child F, allegation of attempted murder. Letby was said by prosecutors to have poisoned the twin brother of Child E with insulin. COUNT 6 GUILTY. Child I, allegation of murder. The prosecution said Letby killed the baby girl at the fourth attempt and had given her air and overfed her with milk. COUNT 12 GUILTY. Child K, allegation of attempted murder. The prosecution said Letby compromised the baby girl as she deliberately dislodged a breathing tube. COUNT 14 JURY COULD NOT REACH VERDICT AT ORIGINAL TRIAL, NOW GUILTY AFTER RETRIAL Child L, allegation of attempted murder. The Crown said the nurse poisoned the twin baby boy with insulin. COUNT 15 GUILTY. Child M, allegation of attempted murder. Prosecutors said Letby injected air into the bloodstream of Child L’s twin brother. COUNT 16 GUILTY. Child N, three allegations of attempted murder. The Crown said Letby inflicted trauma in the baby boy’s throat and also injected him with air in the bloodstream. COUNT 17 GUILTY, COUNT 18 JURY COULD NOT REACH VERDICT, COUNT 19 JURY COULD NOT REACH VERDICT. Child O, allegation of murder. Prosecutors say Letby attacked the triplet boy by injecting him with air, overfeeding him with milk and inflicting trauma to his liver with “severe force”. COUNT 20 GUILTY. Child P, allegation of murder. Prosecutors said the nurse targeted the triplet brother of Child O by overfeeding him with milk, injecting air and dislodging his breathing tube. COUNT 21 GUILTY. Child Q, allegation of attempted murder. The Crown said Letby injected the baby boy with liquid, and possibly air, down his feeding tube. COUNT 22 JURY COULD NOT REACH VERDICT Letby’s legal team, headed by barrister Mark McDonald, has submitted an application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which could see Letby’s case referred back to the Court of Appeal and her convictions quashed. Letby, formerly of Hereford, has always maintained her innocence. She was twice denied permission to appeal against her convictions in 2024. In February last year her new legal team presented reports from a panel of 14 international experts which, they say, casts doubt on the jury’s guilty verdicts. A public inquiry, led by Lady Justice Thirlwall, into how the neonatal nurse was able to commit her crimes is due to publish its findings later this year, on a date yet to be announced. The Sun previously reported on how Lucy Letby and murdered Sara Sharif’s stepmother Beinash Batool had struck up a friendship in the female “Monster Mansion” on Unit 4. We reported how both inmates spend hours trying to out-manoeuvre each other into checkmate on the jail unit.