Baby killer Lucy Letby costs UK taxpayers £100,000,000
The figure includes compensation for the criminal victims, legal costs, and the public inquiry.
Serial killer Lucy Letby will cost UK taxpayers more than £100,000,000 as authorities begin to compensate her victims and pay legal fees.
The new hefty price tag comes after last September, a Freedom of Information revealed her legal representatives received at least £980,133.92, according to the Ministry of Justice.
A legal source said: ‘What Lucy Letby did was on another scale of pure evil which is very difficult to comprehend.
‘The civil process will need to be as thorough and forensic as the criminal case to ensure justice is done for all of those impacted and ultimately nothing like this can ever happen again.
‘A figure of £100million is being discussed when everything is taken into consideration. That’s compensation for the criminal victims, those who claim she harmed their babies, the legal costs and the public inquiry.’
The former nurse, who is Britain’s most prolific child killer, was sentenced to 14 whole-life orders for the murders and seven attempted killings.
On April 25, Letby’s case will be heard by a panel of judges at a public hearing as she appeals her multiple convictions.
The appeal was initially turned down by a judge, but she is now entitled to a full court hearing to argue right to appeal.
Each of Letby’s offences took place in the neonatal unit where she worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Cheshire between June 2015 and June 2016.
Cheshire Constabulary is continuing to review all units where Letby worked, and said in a statement to BBC: ‘During the course of the review if anything of concern medically is identified then the relevant family would be contacted by the investigation team as part of the process.’
Letby was employed as a nurse between 2012 and April 2018.
Police are also understood to be looking at 4,000 other cases at the Countess of Chester hospital, as well as Liverpool Women’s Hospital, where Letby worked on placement in 2012 and 2015.
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