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Jitendra Joshi and Josh Salisbury

Rishi Sunak condemns ‘cowardly’ Lucy Letby after she refuses to face sentencing

The Government will look at changing the law to compel people like baby killer nurse Lucy Letby to appear in court to face the victim’s families, ministers have said.

Speaking on Times Radio ahead of sentencing, Children’s Minister Claire Coutinho said it was “absolutely sickening” Letby was not going to show up at her sentencing on Monday after being found guilty of murdering seven babies on a neonatal unit and attempting to kill six more.

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