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
transparently, and to happen as quickly as possible. those are the objectives that we want for the inquiry and we will make sure it is setup to deliver on those aims. that is the prime minister rishi sunak speaking this morning. before that sentence was handed down to lucy letby. she will serve the rest of her life in prison. thejudge mr justice goss explained he will give a whole life sentence in each of the counts that she was convicted of, the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six more. we will bring you continuing reaction to that sentence here on the pressure police have just released a statement from the deputy senior investigating detective chief inspector nicola evans, she says today lucy letby has been handed a whole life further, the sentence reflects the true scale and gravity of her horrific crimes and ensures the calculated individual is behind bars for a very long time. nothing it says will bring back the bbc died, ortake it says will bring ba
to move very quickly. dan roan, bbc news, sydney. this programme continues on bbc one. after a trial lasting 10 months, a jury decided nurse lucy letby deliberately injected seven babies with air, force fed others milk and poisoned some with insulin. her victims included twins and two boys in a set of identical triplets, who she murdered within 2a hours of each other. consultants who told hospital managers they had concerns about letby were forced to apologise to herfor raising suspicions. we ll ask why bosses at the countess of chester hospital, where she worked, failed to investigate the deaths for so long. there is only one serial killer of babies. the executive team were not the people who were responsible for the deaths of those babies, but they had some opportunities to get to the bottom of what was happening. and why does a health professional trained to save lives become a serial killer? the person who kills within a healthcare setting has already developed the desire
and doctors are life savers. they are incredible. and we heard a lot in the trial about thinking the unthinkable. and, you know, no one wanted to think that this could be possible, as you heard there in the clip from the father. how could a nurse on a ward do something like this? and i think, you know, the manipulation, the fact that she altered records, she was clever, she was calculating, and she pulled the wool over the eyes of her colleagues who did not think everfor a minute that she was responsible. you know, it started with her being an association. she was in the room. she was around a lot. and that raised concerns. but, you know, i don t think anyone actually thought a nurse was operating in plain sight on a ward and in fact, using the most innocuous of materials milk, air, saline, to attack and kill the babies that she s looking after. tell us a little more, caroline, about what we learned about lucy letby during this trial, because, of course, there was focus on
unexpected and unexplained, lucy letby is there. police are now reviewing the admissions of 4,000 babies at hospitals where lucy letby worked. our other main stories tonight. surrey police investigating the death of ten year old sara sharif want to question her father, his partner, and her uncle. ijust hope it s going to be an incredible game, and of course i have a very.preference who wants to win. and the lionesses head coach, sarina wiegman, talks to the bbc ahead of sunday s world cup final against spain. 0n newsnight at 10.30pm. how did lucy letby cause so many deaths? as the most prolific non child killer in modern uk history is found guilty of murdering seven babies, we ask why was she not stopped earlier? hello and welcome to the bbc news at ten. the nurse lucy letby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others when they were in her care at a hospital in cheshire, making the 33 year old the uk s worst child killer in modern time