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Lucy Letby will face a re-trial in June next year, a court heard (Picture: AFP)

Serial killer nurse Lucy Letby will face a retrial on one charge of attempting to murder a baby girl, a court has heard.

A trial date has been provisionally set for June next year after the jury in her first trial was unable to reach verdicts on six counts of attempted murder in relation to five children.

Letby, 33, was sentenced to a whole life order after jurors convicted her of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit in 2015 and 2016.

The prosecution will not seek a retrial on the remaining five counts of attempted murder.

In the first trial the five cases included three baby girls, known as Child H, Child J, and Child K, and two boys, Child N and Child Q.

A nurse has today (Tues) been arrested for the third time on suspicion of murdering eight babies and attempting to kill nine more.? The woman, named in reports as Lucy Letby, is being quizzed in custody after a three year investigation into the death of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Letby was initially arrested in July 2018 as part of a major police inquiry into the deaths of 17 babies at the hospital. She was quizzed on suspicion of murdering eight babies and attempting to kill a further six. She was subsequently bailed pending further inquiries. But was re-arrested in 2019 after being suspected of trying to murder another three infants. Cheshire Police confirmed today that she was being held over the deaths of the eight tots as well as the attempted murder of three more babies - bringing the total to nine.

Letby, 33, murdered three newborns and tried to kill a fourth in the space of just two weeks in June 2015 (Picture: Chester Standard/SWNS)

TOPSHOT - A handout image taken from police bodycam footage released by Cheshire Constabulary police force in Manchester on August 17, 2023, shows the nurse Lucy Letby being arrested at home in Chester on July 3, 2018. Lucy Letby was on August 18, 2023, found guilty of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to murder six others at the hospital neonatal unit where she worked, becoming the UK's most prolific killer of children. Letby, 33 -- on trial since October 2022 -- was accused of injecting her young victims, who were either sick or born prematurely, with air, overfeeding them milk and poisoning them with insulin. (Photo by Cheshire Constabulary / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT
The moment Letby, 33, was arrested in 2018 (Picture: AFP via Getty Images)

Previously unissued court artist drawing by Elizabeth Cook dated 10/08/23 of nurse Lucy Letby listening to the verdicts being read at Manchester Crown Court. A judge-led statutory inquiry should examine the crimes of serial killer Ms Letby, Steve Brine the Conservative chair of the Health Select Committee has warned. Issue date: Sunday August 20, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Letby. Photo credit should read: Elizabeth Cook/PA Wire
Court artist drawing by Elizabeth Cook from last month of the nurse listening to the verdicts being read at Manchester Crown Court (Picture: PA)

Today at Manchester Crown Court, Nick Johnson, KC, for the prosecution, announced it would seek a retrial on one of those charges, the attempted murder of Child K.

Letby, from Hereford, denied all the offences and formally lodged an appeal against her conviction at the Court of Appeal earlier this month. 

The jury of seven women and four men in her trial could not reach verdicts on allegations that Letby attempted to murder three baby girls, known in court documents as Child H, Child J and Child K.

Court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Lucy Letby reacting to the final questions from her barrister Ben Myers, as she appears in the dock at Manchester Crown Court where she is charged with the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of another ten, between June 2015 and June 2016 while working on the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital. Picture date: Wednesday May 17, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Letby. Photo credit should read: Elizabeth Cook/PA Wire

Court artist sketch of Lucy Letby reacting to the final questions from her barrister Ben Myers (Picture: PA)

On Monday, the Crown Prosecution Service said it wanted to pursue a retrial at the same court on one of the outstanding charges.

A provisional trial date of June 10, next year at the same court has been fixed, with an estimated length of two to three weeks.

Letby attended the hearing via videolink from a conference room at HMP New Hall in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

She sat behind a desk and spoke only to confirm her name and that she could see and hear the proceedings.


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