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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kevin Rawlinson

Lucy Letby faces life in jail when she is sentenced for murdering seven babies

Lucy Letby.
Lucy Letby has previously indicated she does not intend to return to court to hear her sentence passed. Photograph: Cheshire Constabulary/PA

Lucy Letby faces spending the rest of her life in prison when she is sentenced on Monday for murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six more at the Countess of Chester hospital.

The former neonatal nurse, the worst child serial killer in modern British history, would become only the third woman to be given a whole-life order should the judge pass such a sentence, as has been suggested, at the hearing at Manchester crown court.

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