August 21, (THEWILL) – British most prolific child-killer nurse, Lucy Letby, convicted of murder of seven babies and attempt to kill six more, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Letby, 33, killed the newborns between 2015 and 2016, by overfeeding them with milk, poisoning them with insulin and injecting them with air, while working as a nurse in the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital in northern England.
Although Prosecution described her as a “calculating” woman, who used methods of killing that “didn’t leave much of a trace”, Letby had repeatedly denied killing the children.
Condemning her actions at Manchester Crown Court, judge, Justice Gross, said on Monday, “You acted in a way that was completely contrary to the normal human instincts of nurturing and caring for babies.
“You deliberately harmed them intending to kill them. In your evidence, you said that hurting a baby is completely against everything that being a nurse is, as indeed it should be.”
Listing her other offences, which included making “inappropriate remarks” after the deaths of the babies, Judge Gross handed her sentence which was “a whole life sentence for every offence.”
“You will spend the rest of your life in prison”, he said.
While Letby refused to appear in court, families of the victims were present.
“Lucy Letby has destroyed our lives. The anger and the hatred I have towards her will never go away. It has destroyed me as a man and as a father”, said the father of two children, who were murdered by Letby.
