A British nurse has been convicted of murdering seven infants between 2015 and 2016 – and attempting to murder six more.
The 33-year-old nurse, who will not be named per Daily Wire policy, became the United Kingdom’s worst serial killer of babies in recent times after she was convicted in 14 out of the 22 counts she faced, People Magazine reported. The trial took 10 months to complete at Manchester Crown Court, with the 11-person jury failing to reach verdicts on six additional counts of attempted murder. She was also found not guilty on two counts of attempted murder.
The woman, who worked as a nurse in the neonatal ward of the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, England, would inject air into babies’ blood and stomachs, overfeed them with milk, physically assault them, and poison them with insulin, CNN reported.
Seven babies died as a result of the nurse’s acts, leading to seven guilty convictions for murder. She was also found guilty on seven counts of attempted murder relating to six additional babies, Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said in a press release on Friday.
During a police investigation, authorities found handwritten notes in the nurse’s home, including one that read, “I am evil I did this.”
During the trial, which started last October, jurors were told that doctors at the hospital where the nurse worked began noticing an unusually high number of babies dying or unexpectedly collapsing. After finding no medical explanation, the hospital called the police.
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“[The nurse] sought to deceive her colleagues and pass off the harm she caused as nothing more than a worsening of each baby’s existing vulnerability,” Pascale Jones, the senior crown prosecutor, said in a statement. “In her hands, innocuous substances like air, milk, fluids – or medication like insulin – would become lethal. She perverted her learning and weaponized her craft to inflict harm, grief and death.”
At trial, prosecutors introduced evidence showing that prior to being attacked, the babies were perfectly healthy, and for those who recovered from the nurse’s attempts to kill them, their recovery was too rapid for the harm to have been natural. Investigators also found falsified medical documents from the nurse attempting to hide her involvement in the deaths, including change time reports to make it appear as though they occurred when she was not there.
Text messages and social media activity also coincided with the attacks, some of which seemed to live blog the events. This activity, according to CPS, showed the nurse had an “intrusive curiosity about the parents of babies she had harmed.”
“To the families of the victims – I hope your unimaginable suffering is eased in some way by the verdicts. Our thoughts remain with you,” Chief Crow Prosecutor Jonathan Storer said in a statement. “Our prosecution team and police investigators have my respect and gratitude. These convictions could not have happened without their dedication to securing justice.”