Police are hunting a group of Chester FC supporters heard shouting an 'appalling' chant about Lucy Letby during their game against Hereford on Tuesday night.
21.08.2023 - 13:23 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Lucy Letby has become one of few female murderers in the UK to receive a whole life sentence - meaning they will never be released from prison.
The 33-year-old was handed a whole life term for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others. She is the fourth woman to receive such a sentence - which is the maximum a British judge can deliver.
The first woman to be sent to jail for the rest of her life was Moors Murderer Myra Hindley, who was convicted of the murders of two children between 1963 and 1965 across Greater Manchester. Brady was convicted of three murders while Hindley would later confess to the murder of two other children, Cheshire Live reports.
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At the trial at Chester Assizes Court in 1966, Hindley, then aged 23, was convicted alongside Brady and was handed two life sentences to be served concurrently. The pair narrowly escaped the death penalty which was suspended the year before and would later be abolished.
Hindley would later die in hospital in West Suffolk in 2022, serving only four years of her life behind bars in Suffolk's HMP Highpoint. 29 years later, Rose West, the wife of murderer Fred West, was convicted for the murders of 10 women and girls in and around Gloucestershire between 1973 and 1987.
She was convicted by the jury just days before her 42nd birthday. While the judge urged that she should never be released, she didn't initially receive a whole life term. However, in 1997, Home Secretary Jack Straw decided that West should receive the maximum sentence.
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Police are hunting a group of Chester FC supporters heard shouting an 'appalling' chant about Lucy Letby during their game against Hereford on Tuesday night.
Child serial killer Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life behind bars after being handed a whole-life order for her horrific crimes.
Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life in prison after killing seven babies and attempting to kill six others while working as a nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Evil child serial killer Lucy Letby is set to die behind bars after fooling her friends and family into believing she was just an ordinary young woman.
Her actions shocked the nation to its core. How could a trusted and seemingly dedicated nurse kill seven babies and attempt to murder six more in a hospital’s neonatal unit? But as we try to understand the depths of Lucy Letby’s depravity, the questions remain about her motive and how an apparently “ordinary” young woman turned into a cold, calculating killer.
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Serial baby killer Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life behind bars after receiving the UK's most severe punishment for her crimes.
Child killer Lucy Letby will die behind bars after she received a whole life order today.
These are all the words the judge said as Lucy Letby, the nurse who murdered babies on the neonatal unit where she worked, was sentenced today (Monday) at Manchester Crown Court.