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The 10-month trial of English nurse Lucy Letby has come to an end. Letby was convicted of killing seven infants, and attempting to kill six others in the care of the Countess of Chester Hospital over a one-year period starting mid-2015. The verdicts were announced just three days after the end of the trial here of Lauren Dickason, who was convicted of murdering her three

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