The trial of Lucy Letby will be remembered as one of the longest and most complex cases in English legal history. Twenty-two charges were brought against her, relating to 17 babies, seven of whom the nurse was alleged to have murdered and ten that she was said to have tried to kill.
Over the course of the ten-month trial, the events that occurred on the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016 were reconstructed in forensic detail by the prosecution. Statements were taken from more than 200 witnesses and the jury was presented with hundreds of pages of medical documents, charts, text messages and handwritten notes.
That evidence was analysed by two independent experts who gave their opinion
