Nurse Lucy Letby will face retrial for one attempted murder charge | ITV News

The 33-year-old neonatal nurse will face trial on one count involving a child known as Baby K who was being cared for at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

A date has been provisionally set for 10 June 2024 and is expected to last three to four weeks.

She was sentenced to a whole life order for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit in 2015 and 2016.

However, the jury in her trial at Manchester Crown Court was unable to reach verdicts in August 2023 on six counts of attempted murder in relation to five children.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it wanted to pursue a retrial on one of the outstanding charges – that Letby attempted to murder a baby girl, known as Child K, in February 2016.