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
supposed to be there. they are supposed to be hearing about the ordeal that they have put their victims through. a lot of it is for thejudge, becausejudges in english law work through a particular set of sentencing guidelines. thejudge, for example on those counts of murder, murderand english for example on those counts of murder, murder and english law, for example on those counts of murder, murderand english law, and it is specifically english law here, in a case of murder there is a mandatory life sentence. of course, that can take various forms. it can be as little as 15 years, or as much as 25, we know that the prosecution have already asked for something called a whole life order. what that means is in the case of lucy letby and other notorious criminals, notorious killers like, her, whole life would mean she would never be released from prison. she would be handed a certain number of life sentences, but a handed a certain number of life sentences, buta minimum handed a
in several parts. you will sum up this case, some of the detail of lucy letby and her crimes. there will be section where he will talk individually, in detail, about the babies that are lucy letby murdered or attempted to murder. this will look different on your screen. throughout the reporting on this trial, the whole media have not been using the names of the babies and their parents. they have been protected, anonymized in order to protected, anonymized in order to protect their privacy as they go through this difficult time and also to protect the privacy of surviving siblings. some of those babies. what you will see in the central section, the moments at which mrjustice goss names the babies and the families. you will see the picture of him on the screen, it cut back, and it will reappear when he has said those names. to preserve the anonymity of the babies and theirfamilies, that is something you will not see on your screen. just to explain what that will look like. the