Serial killer Lucy Letby may have attacked more than THIRTY other babies, police fear – after officers identified ‘suspicious’ incidents at hospital where she murdered seven newborns

Lucy Letby may have attacked more than 30 other babies, police fear – after officers identified ‘suspicious’ incidents at the hospital where she murdered seven newborns.

Officers are looking at 4,000 admissions to neonatal units at the Countess of Chester, where the serial killer nurse worked between January 2012 and June 2016 at Liverpool Women’s Hospital.

Police are believed to be investigating the cases of 30 infants who may have been targeted by Letby but who did not die.

These cases are different from the 17 babies involved in the nurse’s trial at Manchester Crown Court.

As reported in The Guardian, this disclosure comes just before Letby’s predicted refusal to attend his sentencing tomorrow, leaving the parents of the injured babies devastated and without closure.

Officers are looking at 4,000 admissions to neonatal units at the Countess of Chester, where the serial killer nurse worked between January 2012 and June 2016 at Liverpool Women’s Hospital

Police are believed to be investigating the cases of 30 infants who may have been targeted by Letby but who did not die

Letby, 33, will spend the rest of her life in prison after being found guilty of murdering seven babies and the attempted murder of six others during her shifts at the hospital’s neonatal unit between 2015 and 2016 .

The serial killer is likely to join only two other women serving life sentences.

She was found not guilty on two counts of attempted murder, but the jury could not rule on six other counts of attempted murder.

It comes as managers at the Countess of Chester have gone on the offensive against whistleblower doctors who say the babies would have survived if managers had acted on the warnings given to them about Letby.

The parents of the babies Letby murdered have demanded a change in the law to prevent ‘cowardly’ offenders from ‘hiding’ when convicted.

The killer nurse is expected to refuse to appear in the dock when the judge hands down her sentence tomorrow.

This means Letby will also avoid listening to victim impact statements, prepared by the families of those she murdered and injured, detailing how she devastated their lives.

Letby cries as he listens to the first guilty verdicts read out by the foreman of the Manchester Crown Court jury

Letby was found guilty of murdering seven babies and the attempted murder of six others at the Countess of Chester’s Hospital in Cheshire (pictured)

MPs and the infants’ parents demanded new legislation be fast-tracked to force serious offenders to ‘face the music’.

A father, whose Letby twins attempted to murder, said his refusal to appear at Manchester Crown Court was a ‘slap in the face’ for his victims.

“I am so angry that Letby is refusing to come to court to hear his sentence,” he said.

“She is a coward and we feel cheated that she is not here to hear exactly how her terrible actions have affected our boys and our lives.”

“What gives her the right to refuse to come out of the cells or to tell the judge that she has no intention of listening to his sentence? The law must change. The judge should have the power to summon her to the dock to face myself, my wife and all the other victims who desperately want her to hear our victim impact statements.

The government is expected to include changes to legislation requiring offenders to be present in court for sentencing in the king’s speech in November.

The proposals will force offenders to attend or face increased jail time if they refuse, making “no-show” a contempt of court.

But this additional sentence would have little effect on the most serious criminals, like Letby, who have no prospect of ever being released.