Lucy Letby - sentenced to life
22 August 2023: A United Kingdom neonatal nurse Lucy Letby is sentenced to life without any chances to bail by Justice James Goss. She was convicted with 7 counts of infanticiides and 6 counts of attempted infanticides. The in his judgement said that the murders and the circumstances were extraordinary situation required to sentence a female for life without the payroll. Till now only 3 female convicts have been meted with such sentences. “There was a deep malevolence bordering on sadism in your actions,”, judge James Goss said while he delivered the judgement. A Manchester Court jury appeared in the court for 22 days to decide about the case. Nurse Lucy Letby killed the infants put under her care by injecting air into their nerves or by force feeding them etc. She didn't appear in the court at the time of the judgement fearing violent reactions from the relatives and parents of the deceased infants.