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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Anthony France

Pressure mounts on Rishi Sunak for law change after ‘cowardly’ Lucy Letby avoids facing victims’ families at sentencing

Pressure is mounting on Rishi Sunak to pass laws stopping “cowardly” murderers like Lucy Letby refusing to appear for their sentencings.

Letby, 33, was absent from the dock at Manchester Crown Court as she was given whole-life terms for killing seven babies and the attempted murders of six more.

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