Colleagues of serial killer nurse Lucy Letby have continued to insist that she is innocent after the baby murderer was jailed for life earlier this week. Nurses who worked alongside Letby, 33, at the Countess of Chester hospital are reportedly struggling to accept that she murdered seven babies and tried to kill another six. Jurors listened to ten months of evidence that linked Letby to the deaths, which saw youngsters injected with air, poisoned with insulin, and overfed …
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A fundraiser has been launched to appeal serial killer Lucy Letby’s conviction as a campaigner claims that the nurse’s trial for her sickening crimes ‘may represent one of the greatest miscarriages of justice ever’. Letby, 33, was convicted of murdering seven babies in her care at the Countess of Chester Hospital and trying to kill six others over a yearlong period. The former neonatal nurse is Britain’s most prolific child serial killer of modern times and was sentenced …
Former US president, Donald Trump has reacted to the killing of former Japanese PM, Shinzo Abe, calling for his killer to be dealt with ‘swiftly and harshly.’ Shinzo, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was shot on Friday, July 8, while delivering a speech ahead of a parliamentary election. The former prime minister collapsed and showed no sign of life after he was shot twice in the western city of Nara, local media reported. Mr Abe fell to the ground …
A new research has found out that guns overtook car crashes to become the leading cause of death for US children and teenagers in 2020. According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), over 4,300 young Americans died of firearm-related injuries in 2020. The study found out that even though suicides contributed to the toll, the homicides form the majority of gun-related deaths. In the US over 390 million guns are owned by civilians with …
A Kano State Magistrate Court 12 sitting at Gidan Murtala has ordered the remand of Abdulmalik Tanko, Hashim Issyaku and Fatima, in a correctional centre over the brutal murder of 5-year-old Hanifa Abubakar. Tanko, the proprietor of Noble Kids School, alongside his two accomplices, were arraigned before the Magistrate Court on Monday. They were charged for criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, concealing and keeping in confinement a kidnapped person and culpable homicide. Prosecution counsel who is also the Kano …
The Oyo State Police Command has announced a N500, 000 reward for any member of the public that is able to provide useful information that can lead to the re-arrest of a serial killer suspect in Ibadan, Sunday Shodipe. Shodipe who is the prime suspect in connection with the serial ritual killings of over five persons in Akinyele, Moniya in Ibadan, was paraded before newsmen on July 17. The police over the weekend, announced he had escaped from police custody and was declared …