Britain: The nurse who killed 7 children will spend the rest of her life behind bars, sentenced to life imprisonment
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Nurse Lucy Letby (33), who killed 7 newborns and tried to kill 6 other people in Britain, has been sentenced to life imprisonment, now there is no possibility of her release.
Nurse Lucy Letby (33), who killed 7 newborns and tried to kill 6 other people in Britain, has been sentenced to life imprisonment, now there is no possibility of her release. Lucy Letby refused to appear in court for sentencing in Manchester, England. She is being called Britain's most notorious child serial killer in modern times.
After several hearings by the court, the Countess of Chester Hospital was found guilty of murdering seven infants and attempting to kill six other infants. The investigation proved that Nurse Letby had deliberately injected air into children, forced others to drink milk and poisoned two infants with insulin.
Harshest punishment because committed the most heinous crime
Letby will spend the rest of her life behind bars and will become only the fourth woman in UK history to receive such a sentence. Whole life sentences are the harshest sentences available and are reserved for those who commit the most heinous crimes. In sentencing, Justice Goss said the "cruelty and calculation" of Letby's criminal actions were "truly appalling".
Police had searched the house
Justice Gauss said, “You acted in a manner that was totally contrary to the normal human instinct to nurture and care for infants and was in gross breach of trust that all citizens repose in those working in the medical and care professions .” When police searched Letby's house, handover sheets belonging to all except the first four babies were recovered.
