Police are hunting a group of Chester FC supporters heard shouting an 'appalling' chant about Lucy Letby during their game against Hereford on Tuesday night.
21.08.2023 - 09:53 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Killer neonatal nurse Lucy Letby has refused to come into court for her sentencing. The 33-year-old will today learn the minimum period she will spend behind bars after being convicted of the murder of seven babies in her care in the Countess of Chester Hospital, along with the attempted murder of six others.
Personal statements from the families of her victims are due to be read before the judge Mr Justice Goss hears any mitigation and passes sentence. She could be handed a whole-life order, the most severe punishment available in the UK criminal justice system.
However, Letby was not in the dock as the hearing got underway at Manchester Crown Court just after 10am.
Letby had previously indicated she did not intend to return to the dock and did not want to take any part in the hearing, including following the hearing via video-link from prison.
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Her trial was the subject of a reporting ban until the jury had returned all of its verdicts on the seven counts of murder and 15 counts of attempted murder she faced.
The 33-year-old was in the courtroom on August 8 when the jury returned its first two guilty verdicts of attempted murder, and then again on August 11 when she was convicted of four murders and another two attempted murders.
But at the end of the court day on August 11, the nurse did not return to the dock as the jury was sent home for the weekend.
Letby returned to court the following week but made her last appearance in Court Seven on the morning of August 16, when trial judge Mr Justice Goss sent the jury out to continue its deliberations.
More verdicts were returned later that day, in her absence, and again on August
Police are hunting a group of Chester FC supporters heard shouting an 'appalling' chant about Lucy Letby during their game against Hereford on Tuesday night.
Child serial killer Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life behind bars after being handed a whole-life order for her horrific crimes.
Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life in prison after killing seven babies and attempting to kill six others while working as a nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Evil child serial killer Lucy Letby is set to die behind bars after fooling her friends and family into believing she was just an ordinary young woman.
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.
A former boss at the hospital where Lucy Letby killed seven babies has 'a get out of jailfree card' after retiring to the South of France with a £1.8million pension, the parents of one of her victims fear. They want to see ex-medical director Ian Harvey questioned over claims that he could have stopped Letby’s killing spree sooner if he had acted on warnings from senior doctors, The Mirror reports.
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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Baby killer Lucy Letby’s parents are believed to want to move 250 miles from their family home to be nearer to the prison where their daughter is locked up for life.
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.
Families who lost loved ones in the Manchester Arena bombing have joined growing calls for the most serious criminals to be forced to attend sentencing hearings.
Lucy Letby will die behind bars after murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others.
Killer nurse Lucy Letby is to be handed the victim impact statements that were read out during sentencing after refusing to appear in court on Monday (August 21).
After being arrested at her home over five years ago, Lucy Letby has finally been put behind bars for the rest of her life. The nurse was found guilty of seven counts of murder and six counts of attempted murder last week, for the series of horrific crimes she committed at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.
Child killer Lucy Letby will die behind bars after she received a whole life order today.
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.