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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 calculat ....
people can get a chance to tell us what they are thinking. and as an opportunity to find out what is going on out there. here the news. lucy letby is to be sentenced today for murdering seven babies and attempting to kill another six at the countess of chester hospital where she worked as a nurse. her lawyers have indicated she won t attend the hearing. her case has led to renewed calls for a law that would compel offenders to attend court for sentencing. southern california has been hit by tropical storm hilary. a state of emergency has been declared as record rainfall has caused flash flooding in los angeles. in the british columbia province of canada, the military is being brought in to tackle wildfires. 30,000 have been told to evacuate. the human rights watch organisation has accused saudi arabian border guards of killing hundreds of migrants many of them ethiopians trying to cross from war torn yemen. the un made similar allegations last year. saudi arabia has previou ....
the where a rescue operation interior minister says all people the interior minister says all eight people that were trapped on a broken cable car stranded hundreds of metres above a river bread have now been rescued. ground forces have been rescued. ground forces have been managing the operation using a zip line after the use of helicopters had to be called off after nightfall due to strong winds. these images show you the first rescue, how that unfolded, you can see the helicopter with a rope connected to it, a person is moved out of the cable car before being carried away dangling there from the helicopter, and there you can see a second child was rescued by zip wire, the child has been named locally as sammy, you can see him discerning the cable car in the dark, it must ve been so extraordinarily scary for all those children and adults, and he makes a safe dissent to the sound and is greeted warmly by the rescuers below. the group became stuck in the cable car when ....
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 ....
united agree he won t play for the club again after charges against him including attempted rape are dropped. as the british museum hits the headlines in greece the bbc is told police started investigating missing artefacts as far back as january. and sadly football s not coming home but the lionesses are, after their world cup final defeat to spain. and coming up on bbc news, wales coach warren gatland names his squad for the rugby world cup next month, with jac morgan and dewi lake coca ptains. good evening. the serial killer lucy letby will never be released from prison after the judge at manchester crown court jailed her for life for each of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murder of six more at the countess of chester hospital over a period ofjust over 12 months. the 33 year old former nurse refused to appear in court today, prompting the mother of two of her victims to describe it as a final act of wickedness from a coward . the courtroom today ....