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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Andy Gregory and Tara Cobham

Britain’s most notorious whole life killers as Sunak plans to make UK’s toughest sentence mandatory

PA Media

Serial killer nurse Lucy Letby has been handed a rare whole-life order, after being found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others at the neonatal unit where she worked.

The punishment is the most severe available to judges in Britain, and condemns those who have committed to most heinous crimes to spend the remainder of their lives in prison without being considered for parole unless there are exceptional compassionate grounds to warrant it.

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