The Crown Prosecuting Service announced Tuesday that there will be no more charges against British nurse Lucy Letby, was sentened to 15 life sentences in the murders of seven children. Photo courtesy of Cheshire Police
Lucy Letby, a British nurse convicted in the deaths of seven infants, will not be charged with any other deaths, the Crown Prosecuting Service said Tuesday.
Letby, 36, was sentenced to 15 life sentences for the seven murders and eight other attempted murders on seven more babies between June 2015 and June 2016.
She was arrested in 2018 after an investigation by the Cheshire Constabulary. The Countess of Chester Hospital Foundation Trust contacted the department in May 2017 about a higher number of infant deaths than usual in its neonatal unit.
The CPS said it was asked to consider that Letby may have killed or tried to kill more babies.
“We received a file of evidence from Cheshire Constabulary in July 2025 asking us to consider further allegations against Lucy Letby relating to deaths and non-fatal collapses of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital and Liverpool Women’s Hospital,” Frank Ferguson, head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said in a press release.
Ferguson said there was not enough evidence to prosecute those cases.
“The Crown Prosecution Service considered offenses of murder and attempted murder in respect of two infants who died and attempted murder in respect of seven infants who survived,” he said.
Cheshire Constabulary said it didn’t agree with the CPS’ decision. It said it was “not the outcome we had anticipated.” The police department said it had enough evidence.
The department said it submitted files for nine cases of attempted murder and two of murder.
“We believed the evidence submitted met the CPS charging standard,” it said. “The CPS did not agree, and despite our representations we must respect the decision that has been made.”
There is still an ongoing investigation into The Countess of Cheshire Hospital for corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter, Cheshire Constabulary said.
Prosecutors and medical experts believe Letby killed the infants by insulin poisoning, air embolism and overfeeding.
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