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The Independent UK
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Holly Bancroft

Lucy Letby jailed for life: Nurse refuses to face court in ‘final act of wickedness’

Lucy Letby was sentenced for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six more.

Serial killer nurse Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life in prison after murdering seven newborn babies and trying to kill six more on a neonatal hospital unit where she worked.

The 33-year-old, now the most prolific child serial killer in modern British history, deliberately injected infants with air, force-fed them with milk or poisoned them with insulin during a “cruel, calculated and cynical campaign of child murder” at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

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