Killer nurse Lucy Letby stripped of nursing qualifications
A panel found she was unfit to practise nursing.
Child serial killer Lucy Letby has been stripped of her nursing credentials after a panel ordered she be struck off from the register at a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) hearing.
The 33-year-old was sentenced in August to 14 whole-life orders after being convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to murder six others, with two bids on one victim.
The panel found she was unfit to practise nursing before it went on to make the striking-off order, a move they have heard Letby does not resist, despite maintaining her innocence in respect of her convictions.
Her crimes took place in the Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit where she worked between June 2015 and June 2016.
At a hearing in Stratford, east London, on Tuesday, panel chairman Bernard Herdan said: "She deliberately inflicted extreme harm on the most vulnerable of victims."
He added that her actions were "so serious that to allow her to continue practising would pose an unacceptable risk to the public and would undermine public confidence in the profession".
The chairman also imposed an interim suspension order against Letby for 18 months to cover a potential appeal period.