Child serial killer Lucy Letby will face no further criminal charges

Child serial killer Lucy Letby will not face criminal charges in relation to further allegations of deaths and non-fatal collapses of babies.

The Crown Prosecution Service said the extra information it had received from police had not met "the evidential test".

Frank Ferguson, head of the CPS Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said: "We received a file of evidence from Cheshire Constabulary in July 2025 asking us to consider further allegations against Lucy Letby, 36, relating to deaths and non-fatal collapses of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital and Liverpool Women's Hospital.

"Following a thorough review of that evidence, we have decided that no criminal charges should be brought in respect of those further allegations."

Letby from Hereford was sentenced to 15 whole-life terms for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others on a hospital neonatal unit between June 2015 and June 2016.

The former nurse, who has always maintained her innocence, lost two bids last year to challenge her convictions at the Court of Appeal.

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