and has destroyed their lives. i think it s cowardly that people who commit such horrendous crimes do not face their victims and hear first hand the impact that the crimes that had on them and theirfamilies and loved ones. welcome to bbc news, you join me live outside manchester crown court where just in the last hour, the judge mrjustice goss who has provided over the case of lucy letby for almost ten months has really concluded that legal process bypassing the sentence on the convicted killer of children. she is now the most prolific killer of children in british legal history. we now know the 33 year old nurse from hereford lucy letby wills and the rest of her life in prison as a result of the murders and attempted murder she carried out while working as a nurse on the neonatal unit at the countess of chester hospital. we have heard over a period of months harrowing evidence from the parents of victims, we have heard about lucy letby s particularly cruel and calculating of
leaves the club. and more than 20 million americans are under flood warnings, as storm hilary brings torrential rain to southern california. hello. this is bbc news. i m in a foster, live outside manchester crown court, where in the last few hours the nurse lucy letby has been told that she will spend the rest of her life in prison. letby did not appear in the dock for the sentencing remarks by thejudge today. she was brought here to court but she chose to stay in the holding cells and not to face the families of her victims, who read out a series of distressing impact statements. they talked in great detail, emotional detail, about the births of their premature, often very six babies very sick babies. they talked about the deaths of those babies, what we know now was the moments of their murder i lucy letby, and in some cases, the attempted murder of other babies. some of the families chose to read out those victim impact statements in person, others had been read out by
government back. i was just i wasjust reading, sir robert buckland suggested that use of live tv link for serious cases. what do you think would be the reception to a suggestion like that, as now, a law change is being discussed? it is certainl a law change is being discussed? it 3 certainly a possibility. the judge certainly a possibility. thejudge said today that the sentencing remarks, the parents of the victims will be made available to lucy letby, but she can t be compelled to read them. equally, if you had a recording or a link shown in herself, she can t be compelled to watch or listen to it. that is the reality of it. we don t live in a country where we hold people down on a bed or chair and force them to listen to something or to watch something. that is just not what our country is about. at the end of the day there are certain steps you can take, absolutely there are steps you can take, where conditions and punishments would be applied to someone who refuses to com