A nurse in the neonatal unit of a hospital in north-west England has been found guilty of killing seven babies and attempting to kill six more, making her the worst serial killer of children in modern British history, reports Guardian.

Lucy Lathby, 33, was convicted of the “persistent, calculated and cold-blooded” killing of premature babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital ward in north-west England, where she worked.

Jurors heard that she killed some of her victims by injecting them with insulin, while others were injected with air or force-fed milk, sometimes after several such attacks.

The nurse, who was in her 20s when she carried out the attacks, is expected to become only the third living woman in Britain to be given a life sentence – meaning she will never be released – when she is sentenced on Monday.

His victims included two identical triplet brothers killed within 24 hours of each other, a newborn baby weighing less than 1 kg who was fatally infused with air, and a girl born 10 weeks premature who was killed on the fourth attempt. In some cases, he would tear the victims’ diaphragms, and in one case, he would push a tube down a child’s throat.

Lathby has consistently denied the allegations, telling jurors she was “devastated” by the allegations and: “I did everything I could to take care of them. I’m here to help and care, not harm.”

But after a 10-month trial, a jury of seven women and four men found her guilty of the attacks, which the prosecution described as “persistent, calculated and cold-blooded”.

The Guardian reported that a team of 70 detectives is working on the multimillion-dollar investigation into Letby, dubbed Operation Hummingbird.

Neonatologists commissioned by the police examined the records of more than 4,000 babies born at Liverpool Women’s Hospital and the Countess of Chester, two hospitals where Lathby worked between 2012 and 2016. All cases deemed suspicious are then referred to Operation Hummingbird for investigation. additional.