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Ex-nurse Lucy Letby is on trial at Manchester Crown Court for the alleged attempted murder of a prematurely-born baby girl at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2016

Ex-nurse Lucy Letby is on trial for a count of attempted murder of a premature baby girl in February 2016 after she allegedly tried to remove her breathing tube at the Countess of Chester Hospital's neo-natal unit

Lucy Letby, 34, is accused of displacing a baby's breathing tube after multiple attempts were made to insert it - these attempts would not have caused harm, a doctor says

Rebecca Joynes, 30, is accused of six counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child, including two while being a person in a position of trust, she is currently on trial at Manchester Crown Court

Kate Roughley is accused of manslaughter and child cruelty after baby Genevieve Meehan, nine months, was strapped face down to a bean bag at Tiny Toes Nursery, Stockport

WARNING: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE Dr Tijion Esho - who has appeared on ITV's this Morning and BBC's Morning live and has boasted of having a range of celebrity clients on his books - has admitted to an improper emotional relationship with a patient

Four young boys aged 12 to 14 were arrested over the weekend on suspicion of rape in Rochdale, greater Manchester and now face fresh allegations of sexual assault against a second girl

Lucy Letby is due to be sentenced today after she was found guilty of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others follow a ten month trial and jurors deliberating for over 110 hours. But she has refused to attend court

Lucy Letby is alleged to have murdered seven babies and attempted to murder 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016. She denies all the allegations

Lucy Letby denies murdering seven babies and trying to murder 10 others, during which time she was working as a nurse at Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit

Nurse Lucy Letby, who is accused of killing two of three triplets, seemed 'almost as upset' as the babies' mum and was in 'floods of tears', the trial has heard

The 33-year-old nurse is alleged to have deliberately dislodged the youngster’s breathing tube just moments before a consultant walked into the nursery room

Lucy Letby wrote a card to the grieving parents of a baby girl she allegedly murdered, saying that their loved one would be 'remembered with many smiles', a court heard

A GP has given evidence in the trial of nurse Lucy Letby who is accused of murdering seven babies and tells the court how he recalls her crying with another nurse