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| The parents of Lucy Letby |
After Lucy Letby was found guilty of becoming the most prolific baby killer in contemporary British history, her parents chose not to show up in court to see her sentencing.
The neonatal nurse's parents, Susan, 63, and John, 77, were present every day of her 10-month trial at Manchester Crown Court.
They were missing on Monday, though, when Letby's victims' families read heartfelt confessions at her sentence hearing.
Letby was found guilty of killing seven infants and attempting to kill six more between 2015 and 2016 while employed at the newborn section of the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Her parents left their home in Hereford and moved to Manchester in order to hear all of the evidence against their daughter.
Mrs. Letby sobbed in court early last week as the jury read the first guilty murder convictions, exclaiming, "You can't be serious. This is inexcusable.
Neither parent was there when the final guilty convictions were announced last Friday, but she was still sobbing as she left the courthouse.
Letby, who had experienced thyroid problems since she was 11 years old, earned her BSc in child nursing in December 2011.
We are extremely proud of you after all your hard work, wrote her mother and father, who were described by neighbors as a humble, professional pair. adore your parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Letby's relationship with their daughter, whom they assisted in moving, was close.It was revealed during the trial when the jury read a WhatsApp conversation between Dr. Alison Ventress, a work colleague, and the defendant about moving into her new home in Chester.
Letby refused Dr. Ventress's invitation to move with her to New Zealand when she said she wasn't bold enough to up and leave everything. My parents would be incomparably crushed if I left them. You already find it difficult being 100 miles away from me.
The prosecutor, Nicholas Johnson KC, acknowledged Letby "had refused to come into court" when he began his statements at the sentencing on Monday.
The mother of preemies Child E, who passed away, and Child F, who lived, said in court that the nurse's absence was "just one last act of wickedness from a coward."
When Mr. Justice Goss handed down the sentence, Letby—the most prolific child serial killer in contemporary British history—was given a whole life order.
At the court on Monday, more than a dozen family members of Letby's victims sat in the audience, and eight jurors came back to see the punishment.
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