British nurse, Lucy Letby has bagged a life sentence following her conviction for the murder of seven newborn babies and attempted murder of six more.
The judge, James Justice Goss KC, passed the sentence on Letby, who is the UK’s most prolific serial child killer of modern times, on Monday.
The convict was given multiple whole-life terms – one for each offence – becoming only the fourth woman in UK history to receive such a sentence, the BBC reported.
The neonatal nurse was last week convicted of the crimes by a jury of 11, after a 10-month trial during which prosecutors laid out how she deliberately harmed the newborn babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital in northwest England between 2015 and 2016.
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Five baby boys and two baby girls were murdered by the convict during a 13-month period, the Manchester Crown Court heard.
Some of her victims were twins. In one case she murdered both siblings, in another she killed two of three triplets, and in two instances she murdered one twin but failed in her attempts to kill the other.
The judge described Letby’s crimes as a “cruel, calculated and cynical campaign of child murder involving the smallest and most vulnerable of children”.
“There was a deep malevolence bordering on sadism in your actions. During the course of this trial you have coldly denied any responsibility for your wrongdoing and sought to attribute some fault to others. You have shown no remorse. There are no mitigating factors,” the judge further said.
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