Nurse Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life in prison after being given a whole-life order by Judge Mr Justice Goss at Manchester Crown Court for the murders of seven babies and attempted murders of six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 This was a cruel, calculated, and cynical campaign of child murder involving the smallest
00:09 and most vulnerable of children, knowing that your actions were causing significant physical
00:16 suffering and would cause untold mental suffering.
00:23 You created situations so that collapses or causes of collapses would not be obvious or
00:30 associated with you.
00:32 You removed and retained confidential records of events relating to your crimes and checked
00:39 up on bereaved parents.
00:42 There was a deep malevolence bordering on sadism in your actions.
00:48 During the course of this trial, you have coldly denied any responsibility for your
00:54 wrongdoing and sought to attribute some fault to others.
00:59 You have no remorse.
01:01 There are no mitigating factors.
01:04 In their totality, the offences of murder and attempted murder were of exceptionally
01:10 high seriousness, and just punishment, according to law, requires a whole life order.
01:20 Lucy Letby, on each of the seven offences of murder and the seven offences of attempted
01:26 murder, I sentence you to imprisonment for life.
01:31 Because the seriousness of your offences is exceptionally high, I direct that the early
01:37 release provisions do not apply.
01:41 The order of the court, therefore, is a whole life order on each and every offence, and
01:48 you will spend the rest of your life in prison.