The inquiry into the crimes of evil serial killer Lucy Letby will become statutory, the Health Secretary Steve Barclay has announced.
22.08.2023 - 16:47 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The father of murdered police officer Nicola Hughes has said a law change following the refusal of Lucy Letby to attend her sentencing hearing may cause “more anguish” for the families of victims.
Letby did not leave her cell at Manchester Crown Court on Monday as she was given a whole-life sentence in prison for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murders of six more.
Former prison officer Bryn Hughes, whose daughter Nicola was killed by Dale Cregan in 2012 alongside fellow Pc Fiona Bone in a gun and grenade ambush while on duty in Tameside, said calls for a law change are a “knee-jerk reaction”.
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Mr Hughes told the PA news agency: “Most of the time they’re going to be sociopaths and they feed off that anguish and grief.
“If they can see families in the dock they’re going to shout abuse, they’re going to play up, start fighting and anything else, because they can see that pain and anguish on their faces, I don’t think it’s worth going through all that.
“I’ve carried people into the dock who are biting, spitting and shouting abuse and within two or three minutes of the judge speaking to deliver a sentence they’ve started again and the judge has just said ‘take them back downstairs’.
“It disrupts everything, causes more anguish and it delays things, so it’s a really hard choice and they’re not the type of people to just say to them ‘sit down and be quiet’, they’re beyond that, they’ve got total disregard for life and disrespect for law and order.”
Mr Hughes, who was a prison officer for 25 years, said making it mandatory for criminals to be present at court will “eat away” at the families of victims, saying they should
The inquiry into the crimes of evil serial killer Lucy Letby will become statutory, the Health Secretary Steve Barclay has announced.
Her actions shocked the nation to its core. How could a trusted and seemingly dedicated nurse kill seven babies and attempt to murder six more in a hospital’s neonatal unit? But as we try to understand the depths of Lucy Letby’s depravity, the questions remain about her motive and how an apparently “ordinary” young woman turned into a cold, calculating killer.
A doctor who helped catch killer nurse Lucy Letby said she came to a shocking conclusion after being handed a dossier of evidence. Dr Sandie Bohin was called as an expert witness during Letby's trial, which ended with her being found guilty of murdering seven newborn babies and attempting to murder six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Baby killer Lucy Letby was handed a whole life order this week after murdering seven babies and trying to kill six more while working as an NHS nurse. The 33-year-old refused to face her victims’ families in court as they read out harrowing statements telling how she ripped their lives apart.
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These are all the words the judge said as Lucy Letby, the nurse who murdered babies on the neonatal unit where she worked, was sentenced today (Monday) at Manchester Crown Court.
The flag above Manchester Crown Court is flying at half mast this afternoon as a mark of respect to the victims of Lucy Letby. It comes as the neonatal nurse is set to be taken from the court building to begin spending the rest of her life in prison.
A senior manager who was in charge of nursing at the Countess of Chester Hospital when Lucy Letby carried out her murderous attacks on babies has been suspended from her current role.
The mum of a baby murdered by Lucy Letby has told a court how the evil nurse only had one word for the parents of the seven babies she killed.
Nurse Lucy Letby will die behind bars after being found guilty of the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others. The judge told the nurse she acted "in a way that was completely contrary to the normal human instincts of nurturing and caring for babies", as he handed down his sentence at Manchester Crown Court this afternoon.
The father of two babies who Lucy Letby has been convicted of trying to kill said he was left feeling 'uneasy' and was forced to move out of her eyeline in court as she 'kept looking over' at him.
Cowardly child killer Lucy Letby refused to appear in court at her sentencing hearing today.