Former British nurse Lucy Letby, who was convicted of murdering seven babies in August, is seeking permission to appeal her convictions, the BBC, The Guardian and Reuters write.
Letby was found guilty on Aug. 18 of killing seven infants and attempting to kill six other infants between 2015 and 2016, PEOPLE previously reported.
Letby was an employee of the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, England, and was removed in 2016 after senior nurses, who had observed a year of “mysterious and near-death infant deaths,” became suspicious of Letby.
Five boys and two girls were killed under her care. The verdict in August followed a 10-month trial in which disturbing details of her behavior at work were heard. According to the BBC, Letby even wrote a condolence note to the family of one of the children she killed.
“In her hands, harmless substances like air, milk, liquids – or drugs like insulin – would have become deadly,” Pascale Jones, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said in a statement after the verdict.
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On August 21, Letby was given a “life sentence” – reserved for the UK’s “most heinous” crimes, according to the BBC – for each of her offences.
Letby refused to appear in court for sentencing. The judge said the former neonatal nurse had shown no remorse for her crimes and had led a “cruel, calculated and cynical campaign of child murder involving the smallest and most vulnerable children”.
A hearing is scheduled for September 25 to determine whether the Crown Prosecution Service will open a new trial against the 33-year-old woman on other charges of attempted murder on which a jury could not reach a verdict in August, the Guardian reports.
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