Lucy Letby has been sentenced to a whole life jail term, after being found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others. Below are the Judge’s sentencing remarks:
- The defendant, Lucy Letby, has refused to attend court for this sentence hearing. Accordingly, I have to sentence her in her absence. I shall deliver the sentencing remarks as if she was present to hear them and I direct that she is provided with a transcript of my remarks and copies of the Victim Personal Statements read to the court.
- Lucy Letby, over a period of almost 13 months between June 2015 and June 2016, when in your mid-20’s and employed as a neo-natal nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester with specialist training in intensive care, you murdered 7 babies and attempted to murder 6 others, in the case of one of them trying on separate occasions two weeks apart to murder her.
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