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Cheshire PoliceFormer nurse Lucy Letby will be sentenced later for the attempted murder of a baby girl.
The 34-year-old was convicted on Tuesday of trying to kill the premature child, referred to as Baby K, by dislodging her breathing tube.
Letby had already been found guilty by a previous jury of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neo-natal unit between June 2015 and June 2016.
The jury failed to reach a verdict regarding Baby K, resulting in a retrial at Manchester Crown Court.
Helen Tipper/BBCAfter Letby’s conviction, the baby’s family described having to endure a “long, torturous and emotional journey – twice”.
The court heard Letby had targeted the child on 17 February 2016 after she was moved from the delivery room to the neo-natal unit shortly after her birth.
The nurse, originally of Hereford, dislodged the baby’s breathing tube and stood by her incubator watching her blood oxygen levels drop, without intervening.
Consultant paediatrician Dr Ravi Jayaram caught her “virtually red-handed” as he entered the unit’s intensive care room at about 03:45.
Letby told the jury of six women and six men she had no recollection of any such event.
She denied she did anything harmful to Baby K and insisted she had not committed any of the offences of which she had been convicted.
In May, Letby lost her Court of Appeal bid to challenge her convictions.
The former nurse was sentenced to a series of whole-life terms on 21 August, refusing to appear in the dock for the hearing.
Trial judge Mr Justice Goss will sentence the former nurse from 10:30 BST.
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