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A nurse was charged with eight counts of murder and 10 counts of attempted murder following an investigation into infant deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital neonatal unit, police said.
Lucy Letby, 30, is due to appear in Warrington Magistrates Court on Thursday to face the charges, a Cheshire police spokesman said.
Letby, of Arran Avenue in Hereford, was arrested for the third time Tuesday as part of the hospital investigation, which began in 2017.
A spokesman for the force said: “The Crown Prosecution Service has authorized the Cheshire Police to charge a health professional with murder in connection with an ongoing investigation into a series of infant deaths at Countess Hospital of Chester.
“Lucy Letby, of Arran Avenue, Hereford, faces eight counts of murder and 10 counts of attempted murder.
“The charges refer to the period from June 2015 to June 2016.”
On Tuesday, police said the parents of all the babies involved were keeping fully up-to-date on the developments and had the support of officers.
Letby was arrested by police in 2018 and 2019, but was released on bail pending further investigations.
Following his previous arrests, police searched his home in the Blacon area of Chester.
In a 2013 interview with the Chester and District Standard newspaper, the nurse said she cared for babies who required various levels of support.
She had worked in the unit as a nursing student for three years of training before qualifying as a children’s nurse at the University of Chester in 2011.
Letby said she started working at the unit after graduation.
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