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A BRITISH COURT HAS SENTENCED A NURSE TO LIFE IN JAIL FOR MURDERING A TODDLER.

A BRITISH COURT HAS SENTENCED A NURSE TO LIFE IN JAIL FOR MURDERING A TODDLER.

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A British nurse who murdered seven newborns and attempted to kill six others while in her care was sentenced to life in prison on Monday with no chance of parole.

A handout image released by Cheshire Constabulary police force in Manchester on August 17, 2023, shows the November 2020 custody photograph of nurse Lucy Letby. PHOTO: AFP

Lucy Letby, 33, is the most prolific child serial murderer in contemporary United Kingdom history after being convicted of murdering five baby boys and two baby girls.

A series of infant deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital neonatal unit in northwest England between June 2015 and June 2016 led to her arrest.

The prosecution alleged that during her night shifts, when her preemie victims were at their most vulnerable, Letby injected them with air, overfed them milk, or poisoned them with insulin.

After deliberating for over a hundred hours, a jury at Manchester Crown Court reached a verdict on Friday following a trial that began in October.

Letby was on trial when the first guilty verdicts were handed down in early August.

But she refused to leave her cell on Monday for her sentencing and was not present in the courtroom for the final verdicts.

“You acted in a way that was completely contrary to the normal human instincts of nurturing and caring for babies,” Judge James Goss stated to Letby behind her back.

He described her as having “premeditation, calculation, and cunning” and a “deep malevolence bordering on sadism” in her deeds.

The court told her, “You have no remorse,” and ordered that she be provided a written copy of his sentencing words and the victim impact statements from the families.

There are no exceptions, as the saying goes.

As Judge Goss put it, “I direct that the early release provisions do not apply” due to the “exceptionally high seriousness” of the defendant’s offenses.

The judge ruled that “the order of the court is a whole life order on each and every offense” and that the defendant would spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said it was “cowardly that people who commit such horrendous crimes do not face their victims” when Letby did not show up for his sentencing.

Former top prosecutor and current leader of the main opposition Labour Party Keir Starmer has pledged to end the “shamefully exploited loophole” if elected.

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On Monday, Letby was not present for her sentencing, thus she did not hear the victim impact statements given by the relatives of Letby’s victims.

The mother of the twin boys and girls who were attacked in June 2015 stated, in a statement delivered to the court, “You thought it was your right to play God with our children’s lives.”

A murder attempt on the baby boy’s older sibling ended in failure.

“Lucy Letby has destroyed our lives,” the father of two of the triplets killed by the nurse said.

Prerecorded footage of him saying, “The anger and the hatred I have towards her will never go away,” was shown in court.

In the wake of the tragic loss of the two triplets in June 2016, Letby was transferred from the newborn ICU to the administrative offices.

She was initially taken into custody again two years later, in July of 2018. Letby was legally accused and jailed after her third arrest in November of 2020.

No one knows what drives Letby. It was claimed by the prosecution that Letby “gaslighted” her coworkers into thinking that the increase in infant mortality was “just a run of bad luck”

The court heard that Letby had a peculiar preoccupation with the victims’ loved ones by conducting online searches for them.

She was convicted guilty of murdering a child, whose parents she had sent a sympathy card to.

Among the evidence presented to the court was a handwritten note found in Letby’s home with the words “I am evil I did this” written in all capital letters.

Letby had also been found not guilty on two charges of attempted murder, and the jury was deadlocked on six further counts.

Letby insisted he had nothing to do with the babies’ deaths.

The government of the United Kingdom has announced an external investigation into the matter, which will focus on how hospital administration responded to the concerns raised by medical staff.

Executives at the hospital have taken some heat for their perceived lack of responsiveness to top doctors’ concerns regarding Letby as early as 2015.

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