Mr Justice Goss told Manchester Crown Court the killer nurse she had ‘robbed parents of their cherished children’ and ‘deprived siblings of their brothers and sisters’.
Nurse Lucy Letby’s parents, Susan, 63, and John, 77, were a constant presence during her ten-month trial at Manchester Court and attended every day.
More than a dozen family members gathered in Manchester Crown Court to see Britain’s most prolific child killer face justice this morning.
When a brown envelope landed on Detective Superintendent Paul Hughes’ desk, back in May 2017, he never imagined that it would lead to the conviction of Britain’s most prolific child serial killer.
The parents, whose baby boys were attacked by the neonatal nurse during the same shift, called for managers at the Countess of Chester Hospital, in Cheshire, to be held ‘accountable’.
Beginning with her enrolment as an 18-year-old student nurse, MailOnline details the horrific crimes Lucy Letby committed in ‘plain sight’ of colleagues who trusted her as one of their own.
Mike Whitfield and his wife Victoria are seeking justice for their daughter and other possible Letby victims after the killer nurse was yesterday convicted of murdering seven babies.
On up to ten occasions, suspicions were raised or events happened that linked her to the spike in deaths or collapses on the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neo-natal unit.
A 22-year-old Lincolnshire nurse called Beverley Allitt was handed 13 life sentences for a series of child murders. Like Letby, she too point-blank denied the crimes.
A man accused of murdering a woman has admitted in court to driving around with her body in a van before dumping the corpse in a creek but claims he had ‘no motive’ to kill her.
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