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Anna foster, outside manchester crown court. we will continue the coverage in the coming hours as the nurse lucy letby is being sentenced for murdering seven babies at the neonatal ward in chester. do stay with us year on bbc news. with us here.
Courtroom to hear those verdicts when they are past. we believe a little later this afternoon, because the victim impact statements will take time, when the judge makes the victim impact statements will take time, when thejudge makes his remarks, he will sum up this case. and when he passes that sentence, the remarks he would have made to lucy letby in person about her offending, they will be televised because in courts now, there are rare occasions where cameras are now capturing sentencing in certain cases. this is something that is new. it means it is something you will be able to watch on tv, which ordinarily would not be the case. crucially, lucy letby herself will not be sitting in the dock to hear that. not be sitting in the clock to hear that. ., .,, not be sitting in the clock to hear that. ., ., , that. anna foster, outside manchester that. anna foster, outside manchester crown - that. anna foster, outside manchester crown court. i let s bring in our home editor mark
Those families whose victim impacts statements are being delivered in court as we speak there are families who have been through this lengthy process who have given evidence who have listened to evidence and who still don t have a verdict despite the diligence and time of the jury, they still don t have an answer, a verdict, so they will be waiting now to see whether or not lucy letby will face a retrial on those six cans in which the jury was hung, but i will be able to watch, they will know that she is now a convicted murderer and they along with all of the families involved in this case murderer and they along with all of the families involved in this case will hear in the next few hours the will hear in the next few hours the sentence that will be handed down to sentence that will be handed down to lucy letby by the judge in this lucy letby by the judge in this case, mrjustice scott.- case, mrjustice scott. lucy letby by the judge in this case, mrjustice scott. there could be a pot
Affected, some of their children are now severely disabled and will be affected for the rest of their lives. so many people affected by this. ., , . ., ., this. that s right. what we are brinuain this. that s right. what we are bringing you this. that s right. what we are bringing you as this. that s right. what we are bringing you as i this. that s right. what we are bringing you as i am this. that s right. what we are bringing you as i am speaking| this. that s right. what we are l bringing you as i am speaking to this. that s right. what we are - bringing you as i am speaking to you this morning, we bring you the detail of these victim impact statements, they are being read out in court. it is worth saying that these families, the children and victims of lucy letby, their identities have all been kept secret, they have all been anonymized, so the statements i am reading you and the details of her reading you and the details of her reading you and the details of her reading