UK court has handed down a whole-life prison sentence to Lucy Letby, a serial child killer.
Gatekeepers News reports that according to BBC, the 33-year-old was convicted for killing seven babies and attempting to murder six other infants while working at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Letby was found to have deliberately administered air injections to some babies, force-fed others milk, and poisoned two infants with insulin.
The crimes occurred between June 2015 and June 2016 when Letby served as a nurse in the neonatal ward of the Countess of Chester hospital in northwestern England. Her responsibilities included caring for premature babies.
Reading the sentence on Monday, Justice Goss, the judge, said the “cruelty and calculation” of Letby’s actions were “truly horrific”.
“You acted in a way that was completely contrary to the normal human instincts of nurturing and caring for babies and in gross breach of the trust that all citizens place in those who work in the medical and caring professions,” he said.
“There was a malevolence bordering on sadism in your actions.
“During the course of this trial, you have coldly denied any responsibility for your wrongdoing. You have no remorse. There are no mitigating factors.”
Letby refused to appear in court for her sentencing hearing.
When a judge issues a life sentence, they are required to indicate the minimum duration an offender must serve in prison before being eligible to seek parole.
However, in the case of a whole-life sentence, the offender will remain incarcerated for the entirety of their life, without a designated minimum term and no opportunity for early release.
This verdict also establishes her as the most prolific child serial killer in modern times within the UK.
The mother of a baby boy killed by the nurse said she was “horrified that someone so evil exists”.
The mother of one of the other babies had also told the court that knowing her son’s murderer was watching over them was like “something out of a horror story”.
