Lucy Letby joins Myra Hindley, Rose West Joanna Dennehy as women jailed for life
Evil baby killer Lucy Letby has become the fourth woman in British history to be given a whole-life jail sentence so she will die behind bars.
The 33-year-old was handed down the sentence at Manchester Crown Court today after she cowardly refused to appear in the dock after being convicted of murdering seven defenceless babies and attempting to kill six other infants. Her young victims were in her care when she killed them inside the neonatal unit at Countess of Chester Hospital, in Cheshire, between between June 2015 and June 2016.
Letby, from Hereford, harmed the infants in a number of manners, including by injecting air intravenously and administering air and/or milk into the stomach via nasogastric tubes. She also added insulin as a poison to intravenous feeds, interfered with breathing tubes, and inflicted trauma in some cases. Letby's whole-life tariff is only given to the UK's worst murderers. She has become the 68th person to be given one and the fourth woman.
Moment baby killer nurse Lucy Letby was arrested (Cheshire Police)Letby is also the most prolific child serial killer in modern British history.
Mr Justice Goss told the court in her absence: "There was a malevolence bordering on sadism in your actions. During the course of this trial you have coldly denied any responsibility for your wrongdoing. You have no remorse. There are no mitigating factors."
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Sentencing her to a whole-life order for each offence, he said: "You will spend the rest of your life in prison." The judge told her she would be provided copies of his remarks and the personal statements of the families of her victims.
He added: "You killed seven fragile babies and attempted to kill six others. Some of your victims were only a day or a few days old. All were extremely vulnerable."
Letby has been given a whole-life tariff (CHESHIRE POLICE/UNPIXS)
She was a trusted nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital (Chester Standard / SWNS.com)Whole-life orders are the most severe punishment available in the country's criminal justice system and are reserved for those who commit the most heinous crimes. These are the three other women who have been given whole-life jail sentences:
Myra Hindley was jailed in 1966 (Corbis via Getty Images)
Hindley died in prison aged 60 (PA)Myra Hindley - jailed in 1966
Myra Hindley is widely regarded as "the most evil woman in Britain" and her part in the killing of five children led to her becoming one of the most notorious serial killers in British history.
Hindley, along with her partner Ian Brady, murdered five children between July 1963 and October 1965.
The body of one of their victims Keith Bennett has never been found after the killers refused to reveal where his remains were dumped.
In 1966 both Hindley and Brady were jailed for life for the murders. Hindley died in 2002 at the age of 60 but even on her death bed she refused to give up where Keith's body was.
Ian Brady died in jail in 2017 at the age of 79.
Rosemary West continues to protest her innocence (PA Archive/Press Association Images)
Fred committed suicide in jail (PA)Rose West - jailed in 1995
Rosemary West and husband Fred killed, dismembered and buried young women and children at their home at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester.
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The evil pair carried out the killings between 1967 and 1987 before Rosemary was given a whole-life tariff for 10 murders in 1995.
Fred, 53, hanged himself in jail on New Year’s Day 1995 while awaiting trial for 12 murders.
Among the sickening crimes the pair, who had 11 children between them, carried out Rosemary helped Fred rape their daughter Heather in 1987, kill her and bury her under their patio .
Rosemary still protests her innocence and now her own lawyer is pleading with her to give the families of victims closure by revealing all that she knows about the crimes she and her husband committed.
Joanna Dennehy murdered three men (PA)
Dennehy was jailed in 2014 (SWNS.com)Joanna Dennehy - jailed in 2014
Joanna Dennehy is serving a whole-life sentence for murdering three men "just for fun" over a 10-day period in March 2013.
While a nationwide police search went on for her, after the bodies were found in remote ditches in Cambridgeshire, she went on to drive 140 miles to Hereford where she repeatedly stabbed another two dog walkers who miraculously survived - entirely at random.
Born in 1982 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, she was raised in a four-bedroom house in the affluent commuter town of Harpenden, Hertfordshire.
She was a regular fixture on the school hockey and netball teams - and a mother of two.
However she has been diagnosed with several psychopathic and anti-social disorders, including borderline personality disorder.
After her arrest she was also diagnosed with paraphilia sadomasochism, where sexual excitement is derived from pain and humiliation.
With a history of low-level crime, she was continuously on the police's radar.
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