One by one, the parents stood and described the unimaginable pain that Lucy Letby had inflicted on them. First, they shared the pure joy and outpouring of love they had felt at the birth of their children. Then they spelled out the sheer terror they felt when their babies started to collapse and die – seemingly without explanation.
But Letby, now one of only three women alive to be given a sentence of life in prison without parole, was not there to hear their heartbreaking testimonies, having refused to come to her sentencing at Manchester Crown Court on Monday; a final act of cowardice from the UK’s most prolific child serial killer.
